netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/6] phylib: add mdiobus

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:10:09 +0200
From:	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
To:	Trent Piepho <tpiepho@...escale.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Byron Bradley <byron.bbradley@...il.com>,
	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <jdb@...x.dk>,
	Tim Ellis <tim.ellis@....com>,
	Andy Fleming <afleming@...escale.com>,
	Imre Kaloz <kaloz@...nwrt.org>, Nicolas Pitre <nico@....org>,
	Dirk Teurlings <dirk@...xia.nl>,
	Peter van Valderen <p.v.valderen@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] phylib: add mdiobus_{read,write}

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 01:27:11PM -0700, Trent Piepho wrote:

> > Add mdiobus_{read,write} routines to allow direct reading/writing
> > of registers on an mii bus without having to go through the PHY
> > abstraction, and make phy_{read,write} use these primitives.
> >
> > int phy_read(struct phy_device *phydev, u16 regnum)
> > {
> > -	int retval;
> > -	struct mii_bus *bus = phydev->bus;
> > -
> > -	BUG_ON(in_interrupt());
> > -
> > -	mutex_lock(&bus->mdio_lock);
> > -	retval = bus->read(bus, phydev->addr, regnum);
> > -	mutex_unlock(&bus->mdio_lock);
> > -
> > -	return retval;
> > +	return mdiobus_read(phydev->bus, phydev->addr, regnum);
> > }
> > EXPORT_SYMBOL(phy_read);
> 
> Might want to make these function static inline.  Since they are
> external, gcc won't be able to inline them automatically.

If i make them static inline, I won't be able to call them from
external code, which was sort of the idea.

Or are you suggesting that I move them to include/linux/phy.h ?
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html