On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 04:46:40PM +0530, Harini Katakam wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 9:36 AM Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jul 31, 2019 at 03:06:19PM +0530, Harini Katakam wrote: > > > Use the priv field in mdio device structure instead of the one in > > > phy device structure. The phy device priv field may be used by the > > > external phy driver and should not be overwritten. > > > > Hi Harini > > > > I _think_ you could use dev_set_drvdata(&mdiodev->dev) in > > xgmiitorgmii_probe() and > > dev_get_drvdata(&phydev->mdiomdio.dev) in _read_status() > > Thanks for the review. This works if I do: > dev_set_drvdata(&priv->phy_dev->mdio.dev->dev) in probe > and then > dev_get_drvdata(&phydev->mdio.dev) in _read_status() > > i.e mdiodev in gmii2rgmii probe and priv->phy_dev->mdio are not the same. > > If this is acceptable, I can send a v2.
Hi Harini I think this is better, making use of the central driver infrastructure, rather than inventing something new. The kernel does have a few helper, spi_get_drvdata, pci_get_drvdata, hci_get_drvdata. So maybe had add phydev_get_drvdata(struct phy_device *phydev)? Thanks Andrew