[PATCH net-next 5/5] net: stmmac: dwmac-sofcpga: Drop the struct device reference

[Russell King (Oracle)]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2026 at 10:21:00AM +0100, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> We keep a reference to our the struct device in the socfpga_dwmac priv
> structure, but now it's only ever used to produce logs in the
> .set_phy_mode() ops, that are specific to this driver.
> 
> When we call that ops, we always have a ref to the struct device around,
> so let's pass it to .set_phy_mode(). We can now discard that reference
> from struct socfpga_dwmac.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier at bootlin.com>
> ---
>  .../net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-socfpga.c   | 15 ++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-socfpga.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-socfpga.c
> index ae40de2ed8eb..1d7f0a57d288 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-socfpga.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-socfpga.c
> @@ -53,14 +53,14 @@
>  
>  struct socfpga_dwmac;
>  struct socfpga_dwmac_ops {
> -	int (*set_phy_mode)(struct socfpga_dwmac *dwmac_priv);
> +	int (*set_phy_mode)(struct socfpga_dwmac *dwmac_priv,
> +			    struct device *dev);

As you're changing the signature of this method, would it be more
sensible to put "struct device *dev" as the first arg, rather than
swapping the order below:

> @@ -552,7 +553,7 @@ static int socfpga_dwmac_init(struct device *dev, void *bsp_priv)
>  {
>  	struct socfpga_dwmac *dwmac = bsp_priv;
>  
> -	return dwmac->ops->set_phy_mode(dwmac);
> +	return dwmac->ops->set_phy_mode(dwmac, dev);

?

In either case:

Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel at armlinux.org.uk>

Thanks!

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