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Date:   Thu, 31 Mar 2022 18:28:01 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To:     Michael Walle <michael@walle.cc>
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        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 3/3] net: phy: mscc-miim: add support to set
 MDIO bus frequency
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> @@ -295,21 +323,41 @@ static int mscc_miim_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  	if (!miim->info)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
> -	ret = of_mdiobus_register(bus, pdev->dev.of_node);
> +	miim->clk = devm_clk_get_optional(&pdev->dev, NULL);
> +	if (IS_ERR(miim->clk))
> +		return PTR_ERR(miim->clk);
> +
> +	ret = clk_prepare_enable(miim->clk);
> +	if (ret)
> +		return ret;
> +
> +	of_property_read_u32(np, "clock-frequency", &miim->clk_freq);

The clock is optional if there is no "clock-frequency" property.  If
the property does exist, the clock should be mandatory. I don't think
it should silently fail setting the bus frequency because the clock is
missing.

	Andrew