[PATCH v7 1/9] drivers: phy: add generic PHY framework
Kishon Vijay Abraham I
kishon at ti.com
Mon Jun 24 16:37:18 EST 2013
On Wednesday 19 June 2013 02:52 AM, Sylwester Nawrocki wrote:
> Hi Kishon,
>
> I've noticed there is a little inconsistency between the code and documentation.
>
> On 06/13/2013 10:43 AM, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>> +3. Creating the PHY
>> +
>> +The PHY driver should create the PHY in order for other peripheral controllers
>> +to make use of it. The PHY framework provides 2 APIs to create the PHY.
>> +
>> +struct phy *phy_create(struct device *dev, int id, const struct phy_ops *ops,
>> + void *priv);
>> +struct phy *devm_phy_create(struct device *dev, int id,
>> + const struct phy_ops *ops, void *priv);
>
> The 'label' argument is missing in those function prototypes. It seems the
> labels must be unique, I guess this needs to be documented. And do we allow
> NULL labels ? If so, then there is probably a check for NULL label needed
> in phy_lookup() and if not, then phy_create() should fail when NULL label
> is passed ?
Yeah. Label is used only for non-dt case so NULL should be allowed while
phy_create().
Thanks
Kishon
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