On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 12:46:19PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 10:39:14AM +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux admin 
> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 12:25:14PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > > On Wed, Sep 11, 2019 at 12:52:08AM -0700, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> > > > Instead of fwnode_get_named_gpiod() that I plan to hide away, let's use
> > > > the new fwnode_gpiod_get_index() that mimics gpiod_get_index(), bit
> > > > works with arbitrary firmware node.
> > > 
> > > I'm wondering if it's possible to step forward and replace
> > > fwnode_get_gpiod_index by gpiod_get() / gpiod_get_index() here and
> > > in other cases in this series.
> > 
> > No, those require a struct device, but we have none.  There are network
> > drivers where there is a struct device for the network complex, but only
> > DT nodes for the individual network interfaces.  So no, gpiod_* really
> > doesn't work.
> 
> In the following patch the node is derived from struct device. So, I believe
> some cases can be handled differently.

phylink is not passed a struct device - it has no knowledge what the
parent device is.

In any case, I do not have "the following patch".

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