netdev - Re: [PATCH net 1/3] net: ethernet: ixgbe: don't propagate -ENODEV from ixgbe_mii_bus

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Date:   Thu, 4 Mar 2021 10:50:00 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, sassmann@...hat.com,
        Yongxin Liu <yongxin.liu@...driver.com>,
        Tony Brelinski <tonyx.brelinski@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 1/3] net: ethernet: ixgbe: don't propagate -ENODEV
 from ixgbe_mii_bus_init()

On Wed,  3 Mar 2021 17:06:47 -0800 Tony Nguyen wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
> 
> It's a valid use-case for ixgbe_mii_bus_init() to return -ENODEV - we
> still want to finalize the registration of the ixgbe device. Check the
> error code and don't bail out if err == -ENODEV.
> 
> This fixes an issue on C3000 family of SoCs where four ixgbe devices
> share a single MDIO bus and ixgbe_mii_bus_init() returns -ENODEV for
> three of them but we still want to register them.
> 
> Fixes: 09ef193fef7e ("net: ethernet: ixgbe: check the return value of ixgbe_mii_bus_init()")
> Reported-by: Yongxin Liu <yongxin.liu@...driver.com>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
> Tested-by: Tony Brelinski <tonyx.brelinski@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>

Are you sure this is not already fixed upstream by:

bd7f14df9492 ("ixgbe: fix probing of multi-port devices with one MDIO")

?