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authorLennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com>2008-10-08 16:29:57 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-10-08 16:29:57 -0700
commit298cf9beb9679522de995e249eccbd82f7c51999 (patch)
treecabbc9c696a063982aea9a24d8caa667daa33a1a /drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
parent18ee49ddb0d242ed1d0e273038d5e4f6de7379d3 (diff)
phylib: move to dynamic allocation of struct mii_bus
This patch introduces mdiobus_alloc() and mdiobus_free(), and makes all mdio bus drivers use these functions to allocate their struct mii_bus'es dynamically. Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@marvell.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Acked-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c24
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
index a7211a32bb4..d206691f15d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
@@ -36,6 +36,18 @@
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
/**
+ * mdiobus_alloc - allocate a mii_bus structure
+ *
+ * Description: called by a bus driver to allocate an mii_bus
+ * structure to fill in.
+ */
+struct mii_bus *mdiobus_alloc(void)
+{
+ return kzalloc(sizeof(struct mii_bus), GFP_KERNEL);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(mdiobus_alloc);
+
+/**
* mdiobus_register - bring up all the PHYs on a given bus and attach them to bus
* @bus: target mii_bus
*
@@ -87,6 +99,18 @@ void mdiobus_unregister(struct mii_bus *bus)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(mdiobus_unregister);
+/**
+ * mdiobus_free - free a struct mii_bus
+ * @bus: mii_bus to free
+ *
+ * This function frees the mii_bus.
+ */
+void mdiobus_free(struct mii_bus *bus)
+{
+ kfree(bus);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(mdiobus_free);
+
struct phy_device *mdiobus_scan(struct mii_bus *bus, int addr)
{
struct phy_device *phydev;