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Date:   Wed, 16 Jan 2019 15:48:29 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Paul Kocialkowski <paul.kocialkowski@...tlin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: mdio_bus: add missing device_del() in
 mdiobus_register() error handling

> The actual error that we had from devm_gpiod_get_optional() was
> -EPROBE_DEFER, due to the GPIO being provided by a driver that is
> probed later than the Ethernet controller driver.
> 
> To fix this, we simply add the missing device_del() invocation in the
> error path.

Hi Thomas

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

However, i wounder if it makes sense to add a label before the
existing device_del() at the end of the function, and convert this,
and the case above into a goto? That might scale better, avoiding the
same issue in the future?

Thanks

    Andrew

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