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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Subject: Re: cafe8df8b9bc clashes with DSA
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2017 19:06:40 +0100
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 12:55:44PM -0500, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Hi Florian,
> 
> Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > Fixed in the "net" tree with:
> >
> > 6d9f66ac7fec2a6ccd649e5909806dfe36f1fc25 ("net: phy: Fix PHY module
> > checks and NULL deref in phy_attach_direct()"), applies fine to net-next
> > as well.
> 
> Correct, this fixes my setup. Shouldn't this be submitted to net-next as
> well then?

Hi Vivien

David will at some point merge net into net-next.

Until then, you can work around the issue by enabling the PHY drivers
for you hardware. You are also likely to gain a few nice features,
like PHY interrupts rather than polling, maybe some temperature
sensors, PHY statistics, etc...

     Andrew