Re: [PATCHv1 2/2] net: ethernet: stmmac: dwmac-rk: fix optional phy regulator handling

[Piotr Raczynski <piotr.raczynski@intel.com>]

On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 06:42:43PM +0100, Sebastian Reichel wrote:
> The usual devm_regulator_get() call already handles "optional"
> regulators by returning a valid dummy and printing a warning
> that the dummy regulator should be described properly. This
> code open coded the same behaviour, but masked any errors that
> are not -EPROBE_DEFER and is quite noisy.
> 
> This change effectively unmasks and propagates regulators errors
> not involving -ENODEV, downgrades the error print to warning level
> if no regulator is specified and captures the probe defer message
> for /sys/kernel/debug/devices_deferred.

Code looks fine, however this seems like a fix, then Fixes tag would
be nice. Also target tree (net?) should be specified.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Reichel <sebastian.reichel@collabora.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-rk.c | 11 ++++-------
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-rk.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-rk.c
> index 126812cd17e6..01de0174fa18 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-rk.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/dwmac-rk.c
> @@ -1680,14 +1680,11 @@ static struct rk_priv_data *rk_gmac_setup(struct platform_device *pdev,
>  		}
>  	}
>  
> -	bsp_priv->regulator = devm_regulator_get_optional(dev, "phy");
> +	bsp_priv->regulator = devm_regulator_get(dev, "phy");
>  	if (IS_ERR(bsp_priv->regulator)) {
> -		if (PTR_ERR(bsp_priv->regulator) == -EPROBE_DEFER) {
> -			dev_err(dev, "phy regulator is not available yet, deferred probing\n");
> -			return ERR_PTR(-EPROBE_DEFER);
> -		}
> -		dev_err(dev, "no regulator found\n");
> -		bsp_priv->regulator = NULL;
> +		ret = PTR_ERR(bsp_priv->regulator);
> +		dev_err_probe(dev, ret, "failed to get phy regulator\n");
> +		return ERR_PTR(ret);
>  	}
>  
>  	ret = of_property_read_string(dev->of_node, "clock_in_out", &strings);
> -- 
> 2.39.2
>