netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: phy: return EPROBE_DEFER if PHY is not accessible

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Message-ID: <943ee78c-e40a-4682-a271-65d40b69314f@lunn.ch>
Date:   Thu, 30 Mar 2023 14:01:42 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     "Buzarra, Arturo" <Arturo.Buzarra@...i.com>
Cc:     Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: phy: return EPROBE_DEFER if PHY is not accessible

> Regardless, what do you think reading 0x0000 or 0xFFFF should be
> considered as a PHY error?

It is clearly a hack to work around the missing clock. Sorry, but no.

   Andrew