[PATCH net-next 4/4] net: altera-tse: Init PCS and phylink before registering netdev

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Fri Oct 31 09:19:20 PDT 2025


On Thu, Oct 30, 2025 at 11:24:17AM +0100, Maxime Chevallier wrote:
> register_netdev() must be done only once all resources are ready, as
> they may be used in .ndo_open() immediately upon registration.
> 
> Move the lynx PCS and phylink initialisation before registerng the
> netdevice. We also remove the call to netif_carrier_off(), as phylink
> takes care of that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Chevallier <maxime.chevallier at bootlin.com>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>

    Andrew



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