Re: [PATCH] stmmac: Don't exit mdio registration when mdio subnode is not found in the DTS

[Phil Reid <preid@electromag.com.au>]

On 8/01/2016 3:45 AM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 03/01/16 06:36, Romain Perier wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> 2016-01-02 18:52 GMT+01:00 Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>:
>>>
>>>>> This looks reasonable, does it work if we just assign mdio_node to the pdev->dev.of_node to be backwards compatible with DTSes which have not yet been updated?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't understand what you mean. Instead of defining mdio_node with
>>>> NULL, you propose to assign it to pdev->dev.of_node as its default
>>>> value... then it would be reassigned with "child_nod" if a subnode
>>>> with the compatible string "snps,dwmac-mdio" is found, or kept with
>>>> its default value otherwise... and in this case we could call
>>>> of_mdiobus_register(new_bus, mdio_node) all the time ? (it removes the
>>>> conditonnal branch)
>>>
>>> Your understanding is correct, this is what I was suggesting, thanks
>>
>> So in this case, I already tested this yesterday, it does not work,
>> basically because the for loop just after of_mdiobus_register is never
>> executed, probably because new_bus->phy_map is not populated, which is
>> not the case by calling mdiobus_register for example.
>> of_mdiobus_register seems to populate this array of phys only for
>> subnodes found in the devicetree...
>
> Fair enough, then you initial patch with dropping IS_ENABLED() and
> adding a "Fixes" tag should be resubmitted.
>
Looks reasonable.



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Phil Reid