net: phylink: Remove redundant netdev.phydev assignment
authorRichard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Fri, 23 Feb 2018 15:25:46 +0000 (07:25 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 1 Mar 2018 18:26:14 +0000 (13:26 -0500)
commite31a6f9067e3c30da1bea26ce2d1355af9577d13
tree291648bfcd28dc881c4ccc3dd0fbe10dad631a7d
parentba6078081caae5bebbd34844ee2cf6c52aa7daec
net: phylink: Remove redundant netdev.phydev assignment

As a part of working on MII time stamping infrastructure, I was trying
to figure out how netdev->phydev gets assigned, and I stumbled across
this.  Ever since the new phylink code came in, the field is assigned
twice.

The function, phylink_connect_phy(), calls

phy_attach_direct()
phylink_bringup_phy()

and phy_attach_direct() sets

dev->phydev = phydev;

but phylink_bringup_phy() then sets the same field again:

pl->netdev->phydev = phy;

Similarly, the function, phylink_of_phy_connect(), calls

of_phy_attach()
phy_attach_direct()
phylink_bringup_phy()

The removal code is also duplicated:

phylink_disconnect_phy()
pl->netdev->phydev = NULL;
phy_disconnect()
phy_detach()
phydev->attached_dev->phydev = NULL;

This patch removes the redundant assignments, restricting manipulation
of the netdev.phydev field to phy_attach_direct() and phy_detach().

Signed-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/phy/phylink.c