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From: Dan Murphy <dmurphy@ti.com>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>, <andrew@lunn.ch>,
	<davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: phy: dp83869: Add TI dp83869 phy
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 14:08:35 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <efe93d94-c877-779d-5df5-2c5e90dd2e8a@ti.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d5cb879-b3a2-545f-7f74-0f1f1e6380bb@gmail.com>

Florian

On 11/5/19 2:05 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 11/5/19 12:02 PM, Dan Murphy wrote:
> int ret, val;
>>>> +
>>>> +    if (!phydev->priv) {
>>>> +        dp83869 = devm_kzalloc(&phydev->mdio.dev, sizeof(*dp83869),
>>>> +                       GFP_KERNEL);
>>> This belongs into the probe callback.
>> probe callback?  Why do I need a probe function?
> To allocate your driver private memory and do that just once,
> config_init() can be called multiple times through the lifetime of your
> PHY device driver, including but not limited to: phy_connect(),
> phy_init_hw(), phy_resume() etc. etc.

Ah OK.  Makes sense will fix it.

Dan


  reply	other threads:[~2019-11-05 20:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-05 18:18 [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: net: dp83869: Add TI dp83869 phy Dan Murphy
2019-11-05 18:18 ` [PATCH 2/2] net: phy: " Dan Murphy
2019-11-05 19:55   ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-11-05 20:02     ` Dan Murphy
2019-11-05 20:05       ` Florian Fainelli
2019-11-05 20:08         ` Dan Murphy [this message]
2019-11-05 20:20       ` Heiner Kallweit
2019-11-05 20:26         ` Dan Murphy
2019-11-05 20:48           ` Heiner Kallweit

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