Re: [PATCH net-next v2 08/11] of: property: Add device link support for PCS

Vladimir Oltean
2022-11-07T20:22:31Z

On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 02:10:10PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 05:06:47PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
> > This adds device link support for PCS devices. Both the recommended
> > pcs-handle and the deprecated pcsphy-handle properties are supported.
> > This should provide better probe ordering.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@seco.com>
> > ---
> >
> > (no changes since v1)
> >
> > drivers/of/property.c | 4 ++++
> > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> Seems like no dependency on the rest of the series, so I can take this
> patch?

Is fw_devlink well-behaved these days, so as to not break (forever defer)
the probing of the device having the pcs-handle, if no driver probed on
the referenced PCS? Because the latter is what will happen if no one
picks up Sean's patches to probe PCS devices in the usual device model
way, I think.