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Subject: Re: "float PHYs", communication between indirect attached devices
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Hi,

How about ray (or stefan, or someone :) does up a bit of a summary as
to how zrouter uses the floatphy and other stuff in the configuration
hints to represent all of this?

Would we be better off changing the miibus code to work with the
notion of non-phy devices? Would that help a bit?

Adrian