netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 10/14] net: phy: at803x: drop usless probe for qca8081 PHY

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Message-ID: <ZWcICtVc0dBDi3pA@shell.armlinux.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 09:44:42 +0000
From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@...linux.org.uk>
To: Christian Marangi <ansuelsmth@...il.com>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
	Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
	Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 10/14] net: phy: at803x: drop usless probe for
 qca8081 PHY

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 03:12:15AM +0100, Christian Marangi wrote:
> Drop useless probe for qca8081 PHY. The specific functions and the
> generic ones doesn't use any of allocated variables of the at803x_priv
> struct and doesn't support any of the properties used for at803x PHYs.

So now we have two different structures in ->priv _and_ ->priv can be
NULL all in the same driver.

This is getting rediculous.

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