Re: [PATCH net-next v6 08/11] net: dsa: realtek: clean user_mii_bus setup

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Fri Feb 09 2024 - 08:22:11 EST


On Fri, Feb 9, 2024 at 6:04 AM Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca
<luizluca@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Remove the line assigning dev.of_node in mdio_bus as subsequent
> of_mdiobus_register will always overwrite it.
>
> As discussed in [1], allow the DSA core to be simplified, by not
> assigning ds->user_mii_bus when the MDIO bus is described in OF, as it
> is unnecessary.
>
> Since commit 3b73a7b8ec38 ("net: mdio_bus: add refcounting for fwnodes
> to mdiobus"), we can put the "mdio" node just after the MDIO bus
> registration.
>
> [1] https://lkml.kernel.org/netdev/20231213120656.x46fyad6ls7sqyzv@skbuf/T/#u
>
> Signed-off-by: Luiz Angelo Daros de Luca <luizluca@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yours,
Linus Walleij