linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: phy: relax error checking when creating sysfs link netdev->phydev

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Date:   Fri, 16 Mar 2018 20:54:03 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Grygorii Strashko <grygorii.strashko@...com>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Sekhar Nori <nsekhar@...com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-omap@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] net: phy: relax error checking when creating sysfs
 link netdev->phydev

> The phydrv->mdiodrv.flags can be accessible only after call to of_phy_connect()/phy_connect(), 

You need to use a function like of_phy_find_device() to get the
phydev, set the flag, and then call phy_connect_direct(). 

	Andrew