linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net-next v5 08/11] net: dsa: realtek: clean user_mii

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Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2024 00:33:13 +0200
From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To: Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@...il.com>
Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	Alvin Šipraga <alsi@...g-olufsen.dk>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 08/11] net: dsa: realtek: clean user_mii_bus
 setup

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 08:13:27PM -0300, Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca wrote:
> Remove the line assigning dev.of_node in mdio_bus as subsequent
> of_mdiobus_register will always overwrite it.
> 
> As discussed in [1], allow the DSA core to be simplified, by not
> assigning ds->user_mii_bus when the MDIO bus is described in OF, as it
> is unnecessary.
> 
> Since commit 3b73a7b8ec38 ("net: mdio_bus: add refcounting for fwnodes
> to mdiobus"), we can put the "mdio" node just after the MDIO bus
> registration.
> 
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/netdev/20231213120656.x46fyad6ls7sqyzv@skbuf/T/#u
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@...il.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>