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

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Date:	Thu, 28 Apr 2016 00:07:22 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
	Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...oirfairelinux.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] phylib: don't return NULL from get_phy_device()

On Wednesday 27 April 2016 14:47:29 Florian Fainelli wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
> index 499003ee8055..94a27b028dd8 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c
> @@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ int __mdiobus_register(struct mii_bus *bus, struct
> module *owner)
>                         struct phy_device *phydev;
> 
>                         phydev = mdiobus_scan(bus, i);
> -                       if (IS_ERR(phydev)) {
> +                       if (IS_ERR(phydev) && PTR_ERR(phydev) != -ENODEV) {
>                                 err = PTR_ERR(phydev);
>                                 goto error;
>                         }
> 
> 

I think that is an improvement over the original code, and better than
reverting the series. Out of the three callers of mdiobus_scan, I already
commented on drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/pxa168_eth.c being wrong to
start with, and drivers/net/ethernet/cadence/macb.c seems to require
the same fix that you did here for mdio_bus.c

	Arnd