netdev - Re: [PATCH] RFC: Revert "net: phy: check return code when requesting PHY driver module"

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Date:   Mon, 21 Jan 2019 17:26:00 +0100
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Guido Günther <agx@...xcpu.org>
Cc:     Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] RFC: Revert "net: phy: check return code when requesting
 PHY driver module"

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 03:00:55PM +0100, Guido Günther wrote:
> This unbreaks ethernet on e.g. the NXP imx8mq-evk using the fec driver.
> Otherwise it fails like:
> 
> [    3.702671] device: '30be0000.ethernet-1': device_add
> [    3.707783] PM: Adding info for No Bus:30be0000.ethernet-1
> [    3.713329] libphy: fec_enet_mii_bus: probed
> [    3.717815] mdio_bus 30be0000.ethernet-1:01: error -2 loading PHY driver module for ID 0x004dd074
> [    3.726747] PM: Removing info for No Bus:30be0000.ethernet-1
> [    3.732460] device: 'pps0': device_unregister
> [    3.736911] PM: Removing info for No Bus:pps0
> [    3.741317] device: 'ptp0': device_unregister
> [    3.745761] PM: Removing info for No Bus:ptp0
> [    3.750160] device: 'ptp0': device_create_release
> [    3.755024] fec 30be0000.ethernet: Dropping the link to regulator.2
> [    3.761359] fec: probe of 30be0000.ethernet failed with error -2
> 
> This reverts commit 13d0ab6750b20957ac1466da4e44dc0af746ff28.

Hi Guido

Please could you test:

https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg545573.html

Thanks
	Andrew