netdev - Re: [RFC] net: phy: air_en8811h: add Airoha AN8811HB support

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Message-ID: <20251204090232.gbezd4zzppd2qp2a@skbuf>
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2025 11:02:32 +0200
From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
To: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, "Lucien.Jheng" <lucienzx159@...il.com>,
	Daniel Golle <daniel@...rotopia.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] net: phy: air_en8811h: add Airoha AN8811HB support

On Thu, Dec 04, 2025 at 09:21:39AM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> True. Much, much better to return an error from driver probe than having
> to debug arbitrary polarity mismatches..

Note that config_init() isn't PHY driver probe though. It's called
through phy_init_hw() from places such as phy_attach_direct(), so it
will fail the probing or ndo_open() of the Ethernet controller driver,
depending on where it has implemented its PHY attach logic.