[PATCHv2 1/3] phy: core: Add devm_of_phy_get_by_index to phy-core

Kishon Vijay Abraham I kishon at ti.com
Wed Apr 15 02:59:53 PDT 2015


Hi,

On Tuesday 14 April 2015 03:40 AM, Arun Ramamurthy wrote:
> Some generic drivers, such as ehci, may use multiple phys and for such
> drivers referencing phy(s) by name(s) does not make sense. Instead of
> inventing new naming schemes and using custom code to iterate through them,
> such drivers are better of using nameless phy bindings and using this newly
> introduced API to iterate through them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arun Ramamurthy <arun.ramamurthy at broadcom.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ray Jui <rjui at broadcom.com>
> Reviewed-by: Scott Branden <sbranden at broadcom.com>
> ---
>   drivers/phy/phy-core.c  | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   include/linux/phy/phy.h |  2 ++
>   2 files changed, 34 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
> index 3791838..964a84d 100644
> --- a/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/phy/phy-core.c
> @@ -623,6 +623,38 @@ struct phy *devm_of_phy_get(struct device *dev, struct device_node *np,
>   EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_of_phy_get);
>
>   /**
> + * devm_of_phy_get_by_index() - lookup and obtain a reference to a phy by index.
> + * @dev: device that requests this phy
> + * @np: node containing the phy
> + * @index: index of the phy
> + *
> + * Gets the phy using _of_phy_get(), and associates a device with it using
> + * devres. On driver detach, release function is invoked on the devres data,
> + * then, devres data is freed.
> + *
> + */
> +struct phy *devm_of_phy_get_by_index(struct device *dev, struct device_node *np,
> +				     int index)
> +{
> +	struct phy **ptr, *phy;
> +
> +	ptr = devres_alloc(devm_phy_release, sizeof(*ptr), GFP_KERNEL);
> +	if (!ptr)
> +		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
> +
> +	phy = _of_phy_get(np, index);
> +	if (!IS_ERR(phy)) {
> +		*ptr = phy;
> +		devres_add(dev, ptr);
> +	} else {
> +		devres_free(ptr);
> +	}
> +
> +	return phy;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(devm_of_phy_get_by_index);
> +
> +/**
>    * phy_create() - create a new phy
>    * @dev: device that is creating the new phy
>    * @node: device node of the phy
> diff --git a/include/linux/phy/phy.h b/include/linux/phy/phy.h
> index a0197fa..ae2ffaf 100644
> --- a/include/linux/phy/phy.h
> +++ b/include/linux/phy/phy.h
> @@ -133,6 +133,8 @@ struct phy *devm_phy_get(struct device *dev, const char *string);
>   struct phy *devm_phy_optional_get(struct device *dev, const char *string);
>   struct phy *devm_of_phy_get(struct device *dev, struct device_node *np,
>   			    const char *con_id);
> +struct phy *devm_of_phy_get_by_index(struct device *dev, struct device_node *np,
> +				     int index);

Add stubs for this function too. Also update the Documentation/phy.txt.

Thanks
Kishon



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