From: Nathan Rossi <nat...@nathanrossi.com> Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 04:44:35 +1000
> On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 3:14 AM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote: >> All of these special cases we use (all the DT bindings are in text >> files in the kernel sources, we control all of the bootloaders, etc.) >> is the most shaky foundation I've ever seen upon which to erect a >> stable device probing mechanism. >> >> I'm not applying this patch until you add an error handling path from >> the of_phy_connect() call that will do the existing PHY probing sequence >> by hand using phy_find_first(). > > I am not quite sure how to handle that in a way such as to also allow > for the probe deferral in the event that the phydev/mdio bus which the > phy-handle points at is not yet probed itself. But I guess the real > question is whether or not to handle the deferral at all? I think we need some experts in this area to chime in on this issue.
