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Message-ID: <02603c3d-a509-4bdd-a67b-7f494df4eeba@quicinc.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2023 18:05:37 +0800
From: Jie Luo <quic_luoj@...cinc.com>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
CC: Robert Marko <robert.marko@...tura.hr>,
        Konrad Dybcio
	<konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>, <agross@...nel.org>,
        <andersson@...nel.org>, <davem@...emloft.net>, <edumazet@...gle.com>,
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        <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>, <conor+dt@...nel.org>,
        <hkallweit1@...il.com>, <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        <linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <quic_srichara@...cinc.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] net: mdio: ipq4019: add qca8084 configurations



On 11/17/2023 1:08 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> Yes, the clock driver of qca8084 is probed as the MDIO device, the
>> configuration sequence here to lighten the qca8084 PHY need to
>> be completed before the clock APIs available to call.
> 
> Please cleanly separate clock from MDIO. The MDIO driver should only
> use the common clock framework API calls. If the clock driver is not
> loaded yet, trying to get a clock should return -EPROBE_DEFER. The
> MDIO driver should return that from its probe function. The driver
> core will then try to probe the MDIO driver later, by which time the
> clock driver should of loaded.
> 
>        Andrew
> 

Ok, will update the patches to take this solution using the clock
consume APIs. Thanks Andrew for the suggestion.

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