Re: [PATCH 4/6] dpaa2-eth: retry the probe when the MAC is not yet discovered on the bus

[Ioana Ciornei <ciorneiioana@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 10:24:38PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 07, 2021 at 05:36:36PM +0200, Ioana Ciornei wrote:
> > From: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
> > 
> > The fsl_mc_get_endpoint() function now returns -EPROBE_DEFER when the
> > dpmac device was not yet discovered by the fsl-mc bus. When this
> > happens, pass the error code up so that we can retry the probe at a
> > later time.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ioana Ciornei <ioana.ciornei@nxp.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c | 4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c
> > index f3f53e36aa00..3297e390476b 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/freescale/dpaa2/dpaa2-eth.c
> > @@ -4042,6 +4042,10 @@ static int dpaa2_eth_connect_mac(struct dpaa2_eth_priv *priv)
> >  
> >  	dpni_dev = to_fsl_mc_device(priv->net_dev->dev.parent);
> >  	dpmac_dev = fsl_mc_get_endpoint(dpni_dev);
> > +
> > +	if (PTR_ERR(dpmac_dev) == -EPROBE_DEFER)
> > +		return PTR_ERR(dpmac_dev);
> > +
> >  	if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(dpmac_dev) || dpmac_dev->dev.type != &fsl_mc_bus_dpmac_type)
> 
> Hi Ioana
> 
> Given the previous change, i don't think dpmac_dev can be NULL, so you
> can change this to IS_ERR(). IS_ERR_OR_NULL() often triggers extra
> review work because it is easy to get it wrong, so removing it is nice.
> 

Indeed, fsl_mc_get_endpoint() does no longer return NULL.
I'll change it to IS_ERR() in v2.

Thanks!