[PATCH] phy: Return NULL if the PHY is optional (part two)

Geert Uytterhoeven geert+renesas at glider.be
Wed Jan 18 02:02:12 PST 2023


If we're trying to get a handle to an optional PHY, then the PHY
framework being disabled shouldn't return a hard error.

Instead, return NULL just like phy_optional_get() does when there's no
PHY provided in the DT.

Based on commit 11a6e41c0ee503ff ("phy: Return NULL if the phy is
optional"), which did the same thing for devm_phy_optional_get().

Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas at glider.be>
---
It seems there were never any in-tree users of this function since its
introduction in 788a4d56ff378bff ("drivers: phy: Add support for
optional phys") in v3.14.
Perhaps it should be removed?
---
 include/linux/phy/phy.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/phy/phy.h b/include/linux/phy/phy.h
index b1413757fcc3b89b..559c3da515073697 100644
--- a/include/linux/phy/phy.h
+++ b/include/linux/phy/phy.h
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ static inline struct phy *phy_get(struct device *dev, const char *string)
 static inline struct phy *phy_optional_get(struct device *dev,
 					   const char *string)
 {
-	return ERR_PTR(-ENOSYS);
+	return NULL;
 }
 
 static inline struct phy *devm_phy_get(struct device *dev, const char *string)
-- 
2.34.1




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