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>
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