[net-next PATCH v1] net: phy: Move of_mdio from drivers/of to drivers/net/mdio

Florian Fainelli f.fainelli at gmail.com
Thu Oct 8 22:26:44 EDT 2020



On 10/8/2020 7:20 PM, Calvin Johnson wrote:
> Hi Rob,
> 
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 11:35:07AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 9:47 AM Calvin Johnson
>> <calvin.johnson at oss.nxp.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Better place for of_mdio.c is drivers/net/mdio.
>>> Move of_mdio.c from drivers/of to drivers/net/mdio
>>
>> One thing off my todo list. I'd started this ages ago[1].
>>
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Calvin Johnson <calvin.johnson at oss.nxp.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>   MAINTAINERS                        | 2 +-
>>>   drivers/net/mdio/Kconfig           | 8 ++++++++
>>>   drivers/net/mdio/Makefile          | 2 ++
>>>   drivers/{of => net/mdio}/of_mdio.c | 0
>>>   drivers/of/Kconfig                 | 7 -------
>>>   drivers/of/Makefile                | 1 -
>>>   6 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
>>>   rename drivers/{of => net/mdio}/of_mdio.c (100%)
>>
>> of_mdio.c is really a combination of mdio and phylib functions, so it
>> should be split up IMO. With that, I think you can get rid of
>> CONFIG_OF_MDIO. See my branch[1] for what I had in mind. But that can
>> be done after this if the net maintainers prefer.
>>
>> Acked-by: Rob Herring <robh at kernel.org>
>>
>> Rob
>>
>> [1] git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/robh/linux.git dt/move-net
> 
> Makes sense to me to split of_mdio.c. I can work on it once my current task
> completes.

If you could take Rob's patches, given then a round of randconfig build 
tests and update the MAINTAINERS file (no more drivers/of/of_mdio.c), 
then this looks like the right approach to me. Thanks!
-- 
Florian



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