From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@marvell.com>,
Robert Richter <rrichter@marvell.com>,
Chris Packham <chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 7/7] net: phy: mdio-octeon: Cleanup module loading dependencies
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 12:38:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200706103812.GA11800@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200705182921.887441-8-andrew@lunn.ch>
On Sun, Jul 05, 2020 at 08:29:21PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> To ensure that the octoen MDIO driver has been loaded, the Cavium
> ethernet drivers reference a dummy symbol in the MDIO driver. This
> forces it to be loaded first. And this symbol has not been cleanly
> implemented, resulting in warnings when build W=1 C=1.
>
> Since device tree is being used, and a phandle points to the PHY on
> the MDIO bus, we can make use of deferred probing. If the PHY fails to
> connect, it should be because the MDIO bus driver has not loaded
> yet. Return -EPROBE_DEFER so it will be tried again later.
>
> Cc: Sunil Goutham <sgoutham@marvell.com>
> Cc: Robert Richter <rrichter@marvell.com>
> Cc: Chris Packham <chris.packham@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-07-06 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-05 18:29 [PATCH net-next 0/7] drivers/net/phy C=1 W=1 fixes Andrew Lunn
2020-07-05 18:29 ` [PATCH net-next 1/7] net: phy: at803x: Avoid comparison is always false warning Andrew Lunn
2020-07-06 18:06 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-07-05 18:29 ` [PATCH net-next 2/7] net: phy: Fixup parameters in kerneldoc Andrew Lunn
2020-07-05 20:44 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-05 18:29 ` [PATCH net-next 3/7] net: phy: Properly define genphy_c45_driver Andrew Lunn
2020-07-05 20:45 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-05 18:29 ` [PATCH net-next 4/7] net: phy: Make phy_10gbit_fec_features_array static Andrew Lunn
2020-07-05 20:45 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-05 18:29 ` [PATCH net-next 5/7] net: phy: dp83640: Fixup cast to restricted __be16 warning Andrew Lunn
2020-07-05 20:45 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-06 6:37 ` Richard Cochran
2020-07-05 18:29 ` [PATCH net-next 6/7] net: phy: cavium: Improve __iomem mess Andrew Lunn
2020-07-05 20:46 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-05 18:29 ` [PATCH net-next 7/7] net: phy: mdio-octeon: Cleanup module loading dependencies Andrew Lunn
2020-07-05 20:50 ` Florian Fainelli
2020-07-06 10:38 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2020-07-07 0:30 ` Chris Packham
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