netdev - [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: phy: stop exporting phy_driver

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Message-ID: <dff44b83-4a85-4fff-bf6b-f12efd97b56e@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2025 23:34:07 +0200
From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@...n.ch>,
 Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
 Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 2/2] net: phy: stop exporting phy_driver_register

phy_driver_register() isn't used outside phy_device.c any longer,
so we can stop exporting it.

Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
---
 drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 4 ++--
 include/linux/phy.h          | 1 -
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index c82c19971..01269b865 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -3544,7 +3544,8 @@ static int phy_remove(struct device *dev)
  * @new_driver: new phy_driver to register
  * @owner: module owning this PHY
  */
-int phy_driver_register(struct phy_driver *new_driver, struct module *owner)
+static int phy_driver_register(struct phy_driver *new_driver,
+			       struct module *owner)
 {
 	int retval;
 
@@ -3587,7 +3588,6 @@ int phy_driver_register(struct phy_driver *new_driver, struct module *owner)
 
 	return 0;
 }
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(phy_driver_register);
 
 int phy_drivers_register(struct phy_driver *new_driver, int n,
 			 struct module *owner)
diff --git a/include/linux/phy.h b/include/linux/phy.h
index 7da9e1947..bae34e7c6 100644
--- a/include/linux/phy.h
+++ b/include/linux/phy.h
@@ -2027,7 +2027,6 @@ static inline int phy_read_status(struct phy_device *phydev)
 
 void phy_driver_unregister(struct phy_driver *drv);
 void phy_drivers_unregister(struct phy_driver *drv, int n);
-int phy_driver_register(struct phy_driver *new_driver, struct module *owner);
 int phy_drivers_register(struct phy_driver *new_driver, int n,
 			 struct module *owner);
 void phy_error(struct phy_device *phydev);
-- 
2.51.0