[PATCH] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework

[Marc Kleine-Budde]

On 09/26/2012 07:41 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Wednesday, September 26, 2012 09:57:57 AM Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Wed, 2012-09-26 at 20:31 +0530, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>>> The PHY framework provides a set of API's for the PHY drivers to
>>> create/destroy a PHY and API's
>>
>> Just some trivial notes.
>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
>>
>> []
>>
>>> @@ -0,0 +1,445 @@
>>
>> []
>>
>>> +static void devm_phy_release(struct device *dev, void *res)
>>> +{
>>> +	struct phy *phy = *(struct phy **)res;
>>
>> That's a bit twisted isn't it?
>> Perhaps
>> 	struct phy *phy = res;
> 
> No, because you really need to dereference ptr, not simply cast.

To avoid this confusion I suggest to create a struct phy_res. For now
its only member will be a pointer to a struct phy.

> 
> ...
> 
>>> +
>>> +	ptr = devres_alloc(devm_phy_release, sizeof(*ptr), GFP_KERNEL);
>>
>> Is this the right size?
>>
>> Because ptr is **, perhaps sizeof(struct phy) is clearer.
> 
> But incorrect.

A proper struct will make the code more readable here, too.

Marc

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