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From: Ahmad Fatoum <a.fatoum@pengutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] net: macb: Fix regression breaking non-MDIO
 fixed-link PHYs
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2018 17:56:53 +0200
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On 08/20/2018 03:55 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> Why is of_phy_register_fixed_link(np) failing?

Apparently, the fixed-link's gpio's FLAG_REQUESTED bit remained set
causing gpiod_request_commit to return -EBUSY in (v4.18.0):

[<c0667750>] (gpiod_request_commit) from [<c066890c>] (gpiod_request+0x64/0x88)             
[<c066890c>] (gpiod_request) from [<c066a338>] (gpiod_get_from_of_node+0x48/0x13c)          
[<c066a338>] (gpiod_get_from_of_node) from [<c094b92c>] (mdiobus_register_device+0x70/0x124)
[<c094b92c>] (mdiobus_register_device) from [<c0949d2c>] (phy_device_register+0xc/0xa0)     
[<c0949d2c>] (phy_device_register) from [<c094e824>] (fixed_phy_register+0xe8/0x1f8)        
[<c094e824>] (fixed_phy_register) from [<c0b84260>] (of_phy_register_fixed_link+0x150/0x1e4)
[<c0b84260>] (of_phy_register_fixed_link) from [<c0964908>] (macb_probe+0x548/0xa7c)        
[<c0964908>] (macb_probe) from [<c086ebec>] (platform_drv_probe+0x48/0x98)                  

But that's a separate issue, I'll remove this line from the commit message...