From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@microchip.com>,
Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
Thangaraj Samynathan <Thangaraj.S@microchip.com>,
Rengarajan Sundararajan <Rengarajan.S@microchip.com>,
kernel@pengutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com,
Phil Elwell <phil@raspberrypi.org>,
Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier@bootlin.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v5 1/6] net: usb: lan78xx: Improve error handling in PHY initialization
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2025 15:31:22 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Z-F6ykGiKIOIoSY-@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250319084952.419051-2-o.rempel@pengutronix.de>
On Wed, Mar 19, 2025 at 09:49:47AM +0100, Oleksij Rempel wrote:
> } else {
> if (!phydev->drv) {
> netdev_err(dev->net, "no PHY driver found\n");
> - return NULL;
> + return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
> }
Idly wondering why this driver cares whether the PHY has a driver or
not (it seemingly wants to exclude the generic driver.) Not a reason
to reject the patch, just curious.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-03-24 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-03-19 8:49 [PATCH net-next v5 0/6] Convert LAN78xx to PHYLINK Oleksij Rempel
2025-03-19 8:49 ` [PATCH net-next v5 1/6] net: usb: lan78xx: Improve error handling in PHY initialization Oleksij Rempel
2025-03-24 15:31 ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
2025-03-25 17:46 ` Rengarajan.S
2025-03-25 20:06 ` Andrew Lunn
2025-03-19 8:49 ` [PATCH net-next v5 2/6] net: usb: lan78xx: Convert to PHYlink for improved PHY and MAC management Oleksij Rempel
2025-03-19 10:48 ` Maxime Chevallier
2025-03-19 15:14 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2025-03-24 16:18 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2025-03-25 17:37 ` Rengarajan.S
2025-03-25 18:26 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2025-03-19 8:49 ` [PATCH net-next v5 3/6] net: usb: lan78xx: Use ethtool_op_get_link to reflect current link status Oleksij Rempel
2025-03-19 8:49 ` [PATCH net-next v5 4/6] net: usb: lan78xx: port link settings to phylink API Oleksij Rempel
2025-03-19 8:49 ` [PATCH net-next v5 5/6] net: usb: lan78xx: Integrate EEE support with phylink LPI API Oleksij Rempel
2025-03-25 17:51 ` Rengarajan.S
2025-03-25 18:34 ` Russell King (Oracle)
2025-03-19 8:49 ` [PATCH net-next v5 6/6] net: usb: lan78xx: remove unused struct members Oleksij Rempel
2025-03-24 16:20 ` Russell King (Oracle)
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