netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] net/phy: Improvements to Cavium Thunder MDIO code.

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Message-ID: <56E71B45.1010805@caviumnetworks.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Mar 2016 13:12:53 -0700
From:	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	<ddaney.cavm@...il.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
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	<ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>, <mark.rutland@....com>,
	<pawel.moll@....com>, <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <rchintakuntla@...ium.com>,
	<david.daney@...ium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/3] net/phy: Improvements to Cavium Thunder MDIO code.

On 03/14/2016 12:27 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>
> Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 09:53:08 -0800
>
>> Changes from v1:
>>
>>   - In 1/3 Add back check for non-OF objects in bgx_init_of_phy().  It
>>     is probably not necessary, but better safe than sorry...
>>
>> The firmware on many Cavium Thunder systems configures the MDIO bus
>> hardware to be probed as a PCI device.  In order to use the MDIO bus
>> drivers in this configuration, we must add PCI probing to the driver.
>>
>> There are two parts to this set of three patches:
>>
>>   1) Cleanup the PHY probing code in thunder_bgx.c to handle the case
>>      where there is no PHY attached to a port, as well as being more
>>      robust in the face of driver loading order by use of
>>      -EPROBE_DEFER.
>>
>>   2) Split mdio-octeon.c into two drivers, one with platform probing,
>>   and the other with PCI probing.  Common code is shared between the
>>   two.
>>
>> Tested on several different Thunder and OCTEON systems, also compile
>> tested on x86_64.
>
> Series applied, thanks David.


Thanks, but ... I was going to send another revision.

See: https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/3/11/721

There were a couple of items I wanted to fix.

   1) Missing MODULE_LICENSE() in new common code source file results in 
taint warnings.

   2) Fix device reference counts for -EPROBE_DEFER case.


At this point, I think the best path forward is for me to rebase against 
net-next and send you a small fixup set to what was merged.

What do you think?

David Daney