On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 01:20:38AM +0000, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> A prerequisite for PHYLIB to work in the absence of a struct net_device
> is to not access pointers to it.
>
> Changes are needed in the following areas:
>
> - Printing: In some places netdev_err was replaced with phydev_err.
>
> - Incrementing reference count to the parent MDIO bus driver: If there
> is no net device, then the reference count should definitely be
> incremented since there is no chance that it was an Ethernet driver
> who registered the MDIO bus.
>
> - Sysfs links are not created in case there is no attached_dev.
>
> - No netif_carrier_off is done if there is no attached_dev.
Hi Ioana
Looking at the functions changed here, they seem to be related to
phy_attach(), phy_connect(), and phy_detach() etc. Is the intention
you can call these functions and pass a NULL pointer for the
net_device?
Andrew
