Re: [PATCH] phylib: Make PHYs children of their MDIO bus, not the bus' parent.

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Aug 25 2015 - 14:31:42 EST


From: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2015 16:16:03 -0700

> From: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> commit 18ee49ddb0d2 ("phylib: rename mii_bus::dev to mii_bus::parent")
> changed the parent of PHY devices from the bus to the bus parent.
>
> Then, commit 4dea547fef1b ("phylib: rework to prepare for OF
> registration of PHYs") moved the code into phy_device.c
>
> At this point, it is somewhat unclear why the change was seen as
> necessary. But, when we look at the device model tree in
> /sys/devices, it is clearly incorrect. The PHYs should be children of
> their MDIO bus.
>
> Change the PHY's parent device to be the MDIO bus device.
>
> Cc: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/