net: phy: extend fixed driver with fixed_phy_register()
authorThomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Fri, 16 May 2014 14:14:04 +0000 (16:14 +0200)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 16 May 2014 21:18:49 +0000 (17:18 -0400)
commita75951217472c522c324adb0a4de3ba69d656ef5
tree5202fc459802039f73709b959fecedca4d539353
parent9b744942290c168287013f0a19ff7392f65c8107
net: phy: extend fixed driver with fixed_phy_register()

The existing fixed_phy_add() function has several drawbacks that
prevents it from being used as is for OF-based declaration of fixed
PHYs:

 * The address of the PHY on the fake bus needs to be passed, while a
   dynamic allocation is desired.

 * Since the phy_device instantiation is post-poned until the next
   mdiobus scan, there is no way to associate the fixed PHY with its
   OF node, which later prevents of_phy_connect() from finding this
   fixed PHY from a given OF node.

To solve this, this commit introduces fixed_phy_register(), which will
allocate an available PHY address, add the PHY using fixed_phy_add()
and instantiate the phy_device structure associated with the provided
OF node.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@linaro.org>
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/phy/fixed.c
include/linux/phy_fixed.h