linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 06/17] phy_driver: Add and use phy_driver_[un]register

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Date:	Thu, 3 Nov 2011 17:46:15 -0500
From:	Andy Fleming <afleming@...il.com>
To:	Kyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@...ing.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...an.davemloft.net>,
	Greg Dietsche <Gregory.Dietsche@....edu>,
	Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>,
	Arnaud Patard <arnaud.patard@...-net.org>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	Baruch Siach <baruch@...s.co.il>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi>,
	Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@...gutronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 06/17] phy_driver: Add and use phy_driver_[un]register_multiple()

On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Kyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@...ing.com> wrote:
> Several of the PHY drivers are registering dozens of "phy_driver"
> structures at load-time, with different IDs and variations on methods.
> As a result, the error handling is exceptionally ugly.
>
> The "marvell" driver already uses an array of "struct phy_driver" and
> iterates over that to add the drivers, but even then its error handling
> contains a bug (it will not unregister array item 0 on failure).
>
> To resolve these problems, new functions phy_driver_register_multiple()
> and phy_driver_unregister_multiple() are added which take an array and a
> number of drivers and iterate over them internally.
>
> All of the PHY driver files which register more than one "phy_driver"
> are modified to use the new helpers.  This is a sizable net removal of
> about 260 lines of code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kyle Moffett <Kyle.D.Moffett@...ing.com>

Let's try that again, sending to the list.

This is excellent!

Very much
Acked-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>
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