From: Madalin Bucur <madalin.bu...@nxp.com> Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 13:31:37 +0300
> The FMan MAC driver allocates a platform device for the Ethernet > driver to probe on. Setting pdev->dev.of_node with the MAC node > triggers the MAC driver probing of the new platform device. While > this fails quickly and does not affect the functionality of the > drivers, it is incorrect and must be removed. This was added to > address a report that DSA code using of_find_net_device_by_node() > is unable to use the DPAA interfaces. Error message seen before > this fix: > > fsl_mac dpaa-ethernet.0: __devm_request_mem_region(mac) failed > fsl_mac: probe of dpaa-ethernet.0 failed with error -16 > > Signed-off-by: Madalin Bucur <madalin.bu...@nxp.com> Is the DSA issue no longer something we need to be concerned about? If not, why? You have to explain this.
