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

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Date:	Mon, 09 May 2016 00:01:23 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	Philippe Reynes <tremyfr@...il.com>
Cc:	fugang.duan@....com, davem@...emloft.net, kan.liang@...el.com,
	decot@...glers.com, aduyck@...antis.com, jiri@...lanox.com,
	jacob.e.keller@...el.com, tom@...bertland.com, andrew@...n.ch,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/3] net: ethernet: fec: use phydev from struct
 net_device

On Mon, 2016-05-09 at 00:47 +0200, Philippe Reynes wrote:
> On 09/05/16 00:22, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > 
> > 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:
> The function phy_attach_direct and phy_detach update the pointer
> phydev in the struct net_device.
[...]
> So from my understanding, those two lines aren't usefull.
> May you confirm that I'm on the right way please ?

Sorry, you're right.

Ben.

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