Re: [Patch v4 1/3] drivers: phy: Make NULL a valid phy reference

[Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net>]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 06:33:11PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> The common clock framework considers NULL a valid clock
> reference. This makes handling optional clocks simple, in that if the
> optional clock is not available, a NULL reference can be used in the
> place of a real clock, simplifying the clock consumer.
> 
> Extend this concept to the phy consumer API. A NULL can be passed to
> the release calls, the phy_init() and phy_exit() calls, and
> phy_power_on() and phy_power_off() and a NOP is performed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
> Tested-by: Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@free-electrons.com>
> ---
> v2
>  No change.
> v4
>  combine !phy and IS_ERR().
>  Add Tested-by
> ---
>  Documentation/phy.txt  |  6 ++++++
>  drivers/phy/phy-core.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
>  2 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Whole series applied to mvebu/phy_ata-fixes with Kishon's Acks.

thx,

Jason.