On 05/16/2016 06:40 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote: > On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 03:11:35PM +0200, Rabin Vincent wrote: >> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 02:29:03PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: >>> What i think is better is to make fixed_phy_add() return -EPROBE_DEFER >>> if it is called before fixed_mdio_bus_init(). >> >> I don't see how this will work for platforms such as ar7 and bcm47xx >> which call fixed_phy_add() from platform code. > > Ah! Not good. > > fixed_phy_add() is the lower layer call. What we can do is only access > fmb->mii_bus->irq[phy_addr] if irq != PHY_POLL. That should make ar7 > and bcm47xx work again. > > The higher level function fixed_phy_register() should return > -EPROBE_DEFER if fixed_mdio_bus_init() has not been called yet.
ar7 and bcm47xx date back from when the fixed MDIO bus needed its fixed PHYs to be registered before the MDIO bus driver had a chance to probe them, otherwise, you would not be able to utilize them. Things have changed now, and your suggestion makes sense. -- Florian
