From: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 10:42:25 -0700
> Some Ethernet drivers will attach/connect to a PHY device before calling
> register_netdevice() which is responsible for calling
> netdev_register_kobject()
> which would do the network device's kobject initialization. In such a case,
> sysfs_create_link() would return -ENOENT because the network device's kobject
> is not ready yet, and we would fail to connect to the PHY device.
>
> In order to keep things simple and symetrical, we just take the success path
> as
> indicative of the ability to access the network device's kobject, and create
> the second link if that's the case.
>
> Fixes: 5568363f0cb3 ("net: phy: Create sysfs reciprocal links for
> attached_dev/phydev")
> Reported-by: Woojung Hung <woojung....@microchip.com>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.faine...@gmail.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - make sure phydev->sysfs_links is set to false before setting again
Applied, thanks Florian.
