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On systems that use CONFIG_OF_LIVE, the "ofnode" type is defined as const struct device_node *np, while on the flat DT systems it is defined as a long of_offset into gd->fdt_blob. It is desirable that the fixed PHY driver uses the higher-level ofnode abstraction instead of parsing gd->fdt_blob directly, because that enables it to work on live OF systems. The fixed PHY driver has used a nasty hack since its introduction in commit db40c1aa ("drivers/net/phy: add fixed-phy / fixed-link support"), which is to pass the long gd->fdt_blob offset inside int phydev->addr (a value that normally holds the MDIO bus address at which the PHY responds). Even ignoring the fact that the types were already mismatched leading to a potential truncation (flat OF offset was supposed to be a long and not an int), we really cannot extend this hack any longer, because there's no way an int will hold the other representation of ofnode, the struct device_node *np. So we unfort...
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