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authorFlorian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org>2013-01-14 00:52:52 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-01-14 15:11:50 -0500
commitf9a8f83b04e0c362a2fc660dbad980d24af209fc (patch)
tree055b2c8f2d32f3cfd0dc84fd3f8d971a34aeed85 /Documentation/networking/phy.txt
parentc1b52739e45f5969b208ebc377f52468280af11e (diff)
net: phy: remove flags argument from phy_{attach, connect, connect_direct}
The flags argument of the phy_{attach,connect,connect_direct} functions is then used to assign a struct phy_device dev_flags with its value. All callers but the tg3 driver pass the flag 0, which results in the underlying PHY drivers in drivers/net/phy/ not being able to actually use any of the flags they would set in dev_flags. This patch gets rid of the flags argument, and passes phydev->dev_flags to the internal PHY library call phy_attach_direct() such that drivers which actually modify a phy device dev_flags get the value preserved for use by the underlying phy driver. Acked-by: Kosta Zertsekel <konszert@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <florian@openwrt.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking/phy.txt')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/phy.txt11
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/phy.txt b/Documentation/networking/phy.txt
index 95e5f5985a2a..d5b1a3935245 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/phy.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/phy.txt
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ Letting the PHY Abstraction Layer do Everything
Now, to connect, just call this function:
- phydev = phy_connect(dev, phy_name, &adjust_link, flags, interface);
+ phydev = phy_connect(dev, phy_name, &adjust_link, interface);
phydev is a pointer to the phy_device structure which represents the PHY. If
phy_connect is successful, it will return the pointer. dev, here, is the
@@ -113,7 +113,9 @@ Letting the PHY Abstraction Layer do Everything
current state, though the PHY will not yet be truly operational at this
point.
- flags is a u32 which can optionally contain phy-specific flags.
+ PHY-specific flags should be set in phydev->dev_flags prior to the call
+ to phy_connect() such that the underlying PHY driver can check for flags
+ and perform specific operations based on them.
This is useful if the system has put hardware restrictions on
the PHY/controller, of which the PHY needs to be aware.
@@ -185,11 +187,10 @@ Doing it all yourself
start, or disables then frees them for stop.
struct phy_device * phy_attach(struct net_device *dev, const char *phy_id,
- u32 flags, phy_interface_t interface);
+ phy_interface_t interface);
Attaches a network device to a particular PHY, binding the PHY to a generic
- driver if none was found during bus initialization. Passes in
- any phy-specific flags as needed.
+ driver if none was found during bus initialization.
int phy_start_aneg(struct phy_device *phydev);