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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mdio_bus: don't return NULL from mdiobus_scan()
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 16:14:44 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Date: Tue, 03 May 2016 23:14:41 +0300

> I've finally noticed that mdiobus_scan() also returns either NULL or error
> value on failure.  Return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) instead of NULL since this is
> the  error value  already filtered out by the callers that want to ignore
> the  MDIO address scan failure...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>

Applied.