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Date:      Tue, 27 Feb 2007 10:34:28 -0700 (MST)
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        abraham_aji@yahoo.co.in
Cc:        freebsd-drivers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mii functions
Message-ID:  <20070227.103428.104094926.imp@bsdimp.com>
In-Reply-To: <113829.58393.qm@web8325.mail.in.yahoo.com>
References:  <113829.58393.qm@web8325.mail.in.yahoo.com>

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> is any one have the clear idea about the mii functions

Yes.

> (1) mii_mediachg
> (2) mii_tick
> (3) mii_pollstat
> (4) mii_phy_probe
>          &
> (1) struct mii_data

I guess 'What is your question'?

>   Am also interested to know how we can get those
> functionality with out using them. if yes is their any
> ease way to port it to another Unix base OS.  

Not really.  NIC drivers attach the PHY and have the PHY driver take
care of things.  If one wanted portability to other Unix drivers, then
one would just ifdef out the extra code on FreeBSD the other unix
systems would require, no?

Warner



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