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author | Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> | 2014-02-04 18:33:12 +0100 |
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committer | Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net> | 2014-02-05 05:48:43 +0000 |
commit | 788a4d56ff378bff0b8e685d03a962b36903a149 (patch) | |
tree | d22d5b9e750448fb0d7695bf4c9360b326668a95 /Documentation | |
parent | 04c2facad8fee66c981a51852806d8923336f362 (diff) |
drivers: phy: Add support for optional phys
Add devm_phy_optional_get and phy_optional_get, which should be used
when the phy is optional. They does not return an error when the phy
does not exist, rather they returns NULL, which is considered as a valid
phy, but results in NOPs when used with the consumer API.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Tested-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
Acked-by: Kishon Vijay Abraham I <kishon@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/phy.txt | 20 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/phy.txt b/Documentation/phy.txt index 2e24b993e95f..ebff6ee52441 100644 --- a/Documentation/phy.txt +++ b/Documentation/phy.txt @@ -75,14 +75,20 @@ Before the controller can make use of the PHY, it has to get a reference to it. This framework provides the following APIs to get a reference to the PHY. struct phy *phy_get(struct device *dev, const char *string); +struct phy *phy_optional_get(struct device *dev, const char *string); struct phy *devm_phy_get(struct device *dev, const char *string); - -phy_get and devm_phy_get can be used to get the PHY. In the case of dt boot, -the string arguments should contain the phy name as given in the dt data and -in the case of non-dt boot, it should contain the label of the PHY. -The only difference between the two APIs is that devm_phy_get associates the -device with the PHY using devres on successful PHY get. On driver detach, -release function is invoked on the the devres data and devres data is freed. +struct phy *devm_phy_optional_get(struct device *dev, const char *string); + +phy_get, phy_optional_get, devm_phy_get and devm_phy_optional_get can +be used to get the PHY. In the case of dt boot, the string arguments +should contain the phy name as given in the dt data and in the case of +non-dt boot, it should contain the label of the PHY. The two +devm_phy_get associates the device with the PHY using devres on +successful PHY get. On driver detach, release function is invoked on +the the devres data and devres data is freed. phy_optional_get and +devm_phy_optional_get should be used when the phy is optional. These +two functions will never return -ENODEV, but instead returns NULL when +the phy cannot be found. It should be noted that NULL is a valid phy reference. All phy consumer calls on the NULL phy become NOPs. That is the release calls, |