netdev - Re: [net] 9dd6d07682: kernel_BUG_at_drivers/net/phy/mdio

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Date:   Thu, 30 May 2019 01:03:32 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@....com>
Cc:     Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "f.fainelli@...il.com" <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "hkallweit1@...il.com" <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com" <maxime.chevallier@...tlin.com>,
        "olteanv@...il.com" <olteanv@...il.com>,
        "thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com" <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "vivien.didelot@...il.com" <vivien.didelot@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "lkp@...org" <lkp@...org>,
        kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [net] 9dd6d07682: kernel_BUG_at_drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c

>     phydev = dsa_port_get_phy_device(dp);
>     if (!phydev)
>           return 0;
> 
> I don't see how this method is sane either.

If i remember correctly, the thinking was, you can get away without
the PHY, at least during bring up of a new switch/board. So don't
consider this a fatal error. Now that it is fatal, in the sense of an
Opps, maybe we should change this.

      Andrew