phy: separate swphy state validation from register generation
Separate out the generation of MII registers from the state validation.
This allows us to simplify the error handing in fixed_phy() by allowing
earlier error detection.
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/swphy.h b/drivers/net/phy/swphy.h
index feaa38f..33d2e061 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/swphy.h
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/swphy.h
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
struct fixed_phy_status;
-int swphy_update_regs(u16 *regs, const struct fixed_phy_status *state);
+int swphy_validate_state(const struct fixed_phy_status *state);
+void swphy_update_regs(u16 *regs, const struct fixed_phy_status *state);
#endif