Re: [net-next PATCH v2 1/3] device property: Introduce phy related fwnode functions

[Russell King - ARM Linux admin]

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 06:54:07PM +0530, Calvin Johnson wrote:
> +/**
> + * device_phy_find_device - For the given device, get the phy_device
> + * @dev: Pointer to the given device
> + *
> + * If successful, returns a pointer to the phy_device with the embedded
> + * struct device refcount incremented by one, or NULL on failure.

It probably makes sense to refer the reader to the return conditions
for fwnode_phy_find_device() so that should fwnode_phy_find_device()
be updated, there's no need to modify multiple locations.

> + */
> +struct phy_device *device_phy_find_device(struct device *dev)
> +{
> +	return fwnode_phy_find_device(dev_fwnode(dev));
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_phy_find_device);
> +
> +/**
> + * fwnode_get_phy_node - Get the phy_node using the named reference.
> + * @fwnode: Pointer to fwnode from which phy_node has to be obtained.
> + *
> + * Returns pointer to the phy fwnode, or ERR_PTR. Caller is responsible to
> + * call fwnode_handle_put() on the returned phy fwnode pointer.

This one even more so - fwnode_find_reference() is in an entirely
separate file, so the comment could well be missed.

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