netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/5] phylib: don't return NULL from get_phy

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Message-Id: <20160427.162309.63254917338216507.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2016 16:23:09 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com
Cc:	andrew@...n.ch, vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com,
	f.fainelli@...il.com, arnd@...db.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel@...oirfairelinux.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] phylib: don't return NULL from get_phy_device()

From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2016 23:09:37 +0300

> On 04/27/2016 10:49 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> 
>> Please revert this, or fix all the callsites such that ENODEV is not a
>> fatal error.
> 
>    OK, I'll do what DaveM decides.

If you feel confident getting all the ENODEV checks right, please just do
that.

Thanks.