[PATCH] stmmac: Don't exit mdio registration when mdio subnode is not found in the DTS

[Romain Perier]

Hi,

2016-01-02 18:52 GMT+01:00 Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>:
>
>>> This looks reasonable, does it work if we just assign mdio_node to the pdev->dev.of_node to be backwards compatible with DTSes which have not yet been updated?
>>>
>>
>> I don't understand what you mean. Instead of defining mdio_node with
>> NULL, you propose to assign it to pdev->dev.of_node as its default
>> value... then it would be reassigned with "child_nod" if a subnode
>> with the compatible string "snps,dwmac-mdio" is found, or kept with
>> its default value otherwise... and in this case we could call
>> of_mdiobus_register(new_bus, mdio_node) all the time ? (it removes the
>> conditonnal branch)
>
> Your understanding is correct, this is what I was suggesting, thanks

So in this case, I already tested this yesterday, it does not work,
basically because the for loop just after of_mdiobus_register is never
executed, probably because new_bus->phy_map is not populated, which is
not the case by calling mdiobus_register for example.
of_mdiobus_register seems to populate this array of phys only for
subnodes found in the devicetree...

Regards,
Romain