[PATCH 2/4] macb: register the phy after the macb is init

[Sascha Hauer]

On Wed, Feb 06, 2013 at 09:16:24PM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> On 20:35 Wed 06 Feb     , Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 11:15:04AM +0100, Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD wrote:
> > > Signed-off-by: Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD <plagnioj at jcrosoft.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/net/macb.c |    2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/net/macb.c b/drivers/net/macb.c
> > > index 15b1e93..8eac4a8 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/net/macb.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/net/macb.c
> > > @@ -476,8 +476,8 @@ static int macb_probe(struct device_d *dev)
> > >  
> > >  	macb_writel(macb, NCFGR, ncfgr);
> > >  
> > > -	mdiobus_register(&macb->miibus);
> > >  	eth_register(edev);
> > > +	mdiobus_register(&macb->miibus);
> > 
> > Why?
> > 
> > Most other drivers do it the other way round and you do not provide
> > information why this is done.
> because the is not ready
> 
> as we init it as _init which is done during the eth_register

Then you should probably call macb_init from your probe function
manually. This implicit dependency is not good.

Sascha

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