Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] net: ethernet: fec: use phydev from struct net_device

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Sun May 08 2016 - 18:22:41 EST


On Sun, 2016-05-08 at 23:44 +0200, Philippe Reynes wrote:
> The private structure contain a pointer to phydev, but the structure
> net_device already contain such pointer. So we can remove the pointer
> phydev in the private structure, and update the driver to use the one
> contained in struct net_device.

But there is no central code that updates the pointer, so:

[...]
> @@ -1928,7 +1926,6 @@ static int fec_enet_mii_probe(struct net_device *ndev)
> Â
> Â phy_dev->advertising = phy_dev->supported;
> Â
> - fep->phy_dev = phy_dev;

you need to assign ndev->phydev here

[...]
> @@ -2875,8 +2869,7 @@ fec_enet_close(struct net_device *ndev)
> Â fec_stop(ndev);
> Â }
> Â
> - phy_disconnect(fep->phy_dev);
> - fep->phy_dev = NULL;
> + phy_disconnect(ndev->phydev);
[...]

and you need to set it to NULL here.

Ben.
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