Hi all,

So where'd we get to with this?

I'd like to finalise a unified proposal for this.

I still like the idea of tidying up the miibus/mdiobus stuff (ie, miibus really is an mdiobus for speaking to things, along with some methods to do MII stuff like media change, media set, MAC PLL/type set, etc) but I agree with ray@ that things begin to look a _lot_ more complicated when we start trying to handle alternate methods of how switches are connected.

So I'd like to not lose interest on this.

If we can't come to some kind of consensus, I'll just commit ray@'s work (and cop the flak) then work with stb@ to tidy up the newbus bits to hopefully be better for the long term.

In summary - I'm fed up that we're this close to having _something_ that looks like a workable switch API and working code but it's not in the tree. So I'm happy stirring up trouble and copping the flak from things if it means it Just Gets Done.

Adrian