Re: [PATCH net, v2] of_mdio: avoid MDIO bus removal when a PHY is missing

From: Geert Uytterhoeven
Date: Tue Jan 09 2018 - 03:36:06 EST


Hi Madalin,

On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 9:33 AM, Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> If one of the child devices is missing the of_mdiobus_register_phy()
> call will return -ENODEV. When a missing device is encountered the
> registration of the remaining PHYs is stopped and the MDIO bus will
> fail to register. Propagate all errors except ENODEV to avoid it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Madalin Bucur <madalin.bucur@xxxxxxx>

Thanks for your patch!

> ---
> v2: add an error print for the first change; the second place has
> some noise aleady generated by the exing code
>
> drivers/of/of_mdio.c | 12 +++++++++---
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/of/of_mdio.c b/drivers/of/of_mdio.c
> index 3481e69..a249370 100644
> --- a/drivers/of/of_mdio.c
> +++ b/drivers/of/of_mdio.c
> @@ -231,8 +231,14 @@ int of_mdiobus_register(struct mii_bus *mdio, struct device_node *np)
> rc = of_mdiobus_register_phy(mdio, child, addr);
> else
> rc = of_mdiobus_register_device(mdio, child, addr);
> - if (rc)
> - goto unregister;
> +
> + if (rc == -ENODEV)
> + dev_err(&mdio->dev,
> + "MDIO device at address %d is missing.\n",
> + addr);
> + else
> + if (rc)

You can merge the two lines above into a single line.

> + goto unregister;

... dropping the need to reindent the above line.

> }

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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