Dear Dmitry,
In message 542A5861.7010000@tibbo.com you wrote:
4 Aug 2014 in this mailing list you requested deletion of ICPLUS driver for a frequently used and cheap IP101A/G phy. Is there are better alternative PHY driver in U-Boot for this device? If not, could you patch it back?
The commit message is pretty explicit about the reason:
commit 368b4d2b49bbbf379d9334747fbbd2aaaafe4356 Author: Masahiro Yamada yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com Date: Mon Aug 4 08:11:37 2014 +0900
drivers: net: remove dead drivers
The following configs are not defined at all:
- CONFIG_INCA_IP_SWITCH - CONFIG_PBL2800_ETHER - CONFIG_PHY_ICPLUS
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada yamada.m@jp.panasonic.com
There is/was not a single board configuration in mainline U-Boot which defined CONFIG_PHY_ICPLUS, i. e. the driver was just dead, unused code.
So the PHY may be "frequently used and cheap", but the driver for it has never been used in mainline, so we finally got rid of the dead weight.
I can see no reason to adding it back - this can be easily done if someone wants to actually use this driver, i. e. for example if you submit a boad configuration which references it.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk