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Message-ID: <7c79b1f8-a5b6-46b7-99fc-a0ac1bec5694@lunn.ch>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:04:11 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Kory Maincent <kory.maincent@...tlin.com>
Cc: Elad Nachman <enachman@...vell.com>,
	Taras Chornyi <taras.chornyi@...ision.eu>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
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	"kuba@...nel.org" <kuba@...nel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] Fix prestera driver fail to probe
 twice

> Prestera is indeed not directly involved in PoE. I wrote a hack to be able to
> get the PoE ports control, for testing my PoE patch series.
> 
> The aim in the future will be to add RJ45 port abstraction.
> The Prestera will get the port abstraction which will get the PoE ports control.
> The prestera driver then might receive an EPROBE_DEFER from it.

O.K, so EPRODE_DEFER has to work in a meaningful way. I'm not sure we
can call a 30 second delay meaningful.

And it is not just PoE. phylink_create() can return EPROBE_DEFER, and
there are probably others.

      Andrew

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