[PATCH v1 1/6] net: mv643xx_eth: properly start/stop phy device

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Wed Dec 11 12:28:15 EST 2013


From: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 08:06:36 +0100

> On 12/11/2013 03:56 AM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: David Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
>> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:52:53 -0500 (EST)
>>
>>>
>>> This series looks good, applied to net-next, thanks.
>>
>> Actually, I had to revert.
>>
>> You cannot use late_initcall_sync() from code that is potentially
>> built modular, this caused my build to fail at the mdio_bus code.
>>
>> drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:344:1: warning: data definition has no type
>> or storage class [enabled by default]
>> drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:344:1: error: type defaults to ‘int’ in
>> declaration of ‘late_initcall_sync’ [-Werror=implicit-int]
>> drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:344:1: warning: parameter names (without
>> types) in function declaration [enabled by default]
>> drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c:339:12: warning:
>> ‘mdio_bus_class_suspend_unused’ defined but not used
>> [-Wunused-function]
>>
> 
> Hmm, I see. What about you drop patch 5 ("net: phy: suspend unused
> PHYs
> on mdio_bus in late_initcall"), take the rest, and I'll have look at
> suspending unused PHYs later?

What about you resubmit the series that you want me to apply?

Thanks.


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