net: mdio: Remove of_phy_attach()

We have no in-tree users, also update the sfp-phylink.rst documentation
to indicate that phy_attach_direct() is used instead of of_phy_attach().

Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 30 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/mdio/of_mdio.c b/drivers/net/mdio/of_mdio.c
index 4daf94bb56a5..ea9d5855fb52 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mdio/of_mdio.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mdio/of_mdio.c
@@ -462,36 +462,6 @@ struct phy_device *of_phy_get_and_connect(struct net_device *dev,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_phy_get_and_connect);
 
-/**
- * of_phy_attach - Attach to a PHY without starting the state machine
- * @dev: pointer to net_device claiming the phy
- * @phy_np: Node pointer for the PHY
- * @flags: flags to pass to the PHY
- * @iface: PHY data interface type
- *
- * If successful, returns a pointer to the phy_device with the embedded
- * struct device refcount incremented by one, or NULL on failure. The
- * refcount must be dropped by calling phy_disconnect() or phy_detach().
- */
-struct phy_device *of_phy_attach(struct net_device *dev,
-				 struct device_node *phy_np, u32 flags,
-				 phy_interface_t iface)
-{
-	struct phy_device *phy = of_phy_find_device(phy_np);
-	int ret;
-
-	if (!phy)
-		return NULL;
-
-	ret = phy_attach_direct(dev, phy, flags, iface);
-
-	/* refcount is held by phy_attach_direct() on success */
-	put_device(&phy->mdio.dev);
-
-	return ret ? NULL : phy;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(of_phy_attach);
-
 /*
  * of_phy_is_fixed_link() and of_phy_register_fixed_link() must
  * support two DT bindings: