netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: phy: check return code when requesting PHY driver module

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Date:   Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:22:51 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: phy: check return code when requesting
 PHY driver module

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 08:07:38AM +0100, Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> When requesting the PHY driver module fails we'll bind the genphy
> driver later. This isn't obvious to the user and may cause, depending
> on the PHY, different types of issues. Therefore check the return code
> of request_module(). Note that we only check for failures in loading
> the module, not whether a module exists for the respective PHY ID.
> 
> v2:
> - add comment explaining what is checked and what is not
> - return error from phy_device_create() if loading module fails
> 
> Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew