Re: [PATCH net-next v2 3/3] net: mdio: treat PSE EPROBE_DEFER as non-fatal during PHY registration

Kory Maincent
2026-04-03T13:38:57Z

On Fri, 3 Apr 2026 15:31:11 +0200
Carlo Szelinsky <github@szelinsky.de> wrote:

> Hi Andrew,
>
> Thx for helping me!
> I thought of keeping the eager path so we still catch broken DT bindings
> early at boot instead of silently failing later on first ethtool access.
> But you're right, dropping it would simplify things quite a bit. Do you
> think that trade-off is worth it? I will follow your lead.

On my side I thinks that's a good idea, and I don't see any issue with that for
now. Oleksij you introduced it here in the first place, is it ok for you?

Regards,
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Köry Maincent, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and kernel engineering