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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: fec: manage corner deferred probe condition
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
To:     Pierluigi Passaro <pierluigi.p@variscite.com>, andrew@lunn.ch,
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Date:   Tue, 17 Jan 2023 13:55:45 +0100
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Hello,

On Sun, 2023-01-15 at 22:38 +0100, Pierluigi Passaro wrote:
> For dual fec interfaces, external phys can only be configured by fec0.
> When the function of_mdiobus_register return -EPROBE_DEFER, the driver
> is lately called to manage fec1, which wrongly register its mii_bus as
> fec0_mii_bus.
> When fec0 retry the probe, the previous assignement prevent the MDIO bus
> registration.
> Use a static boolean to trace the orginal MDIO bus deferred probe and
> prevent further registrations until the fec0 registration completed
> succesfully.
>=20
> Signed-off-by: Pierluigi Passaro <pierluigi.p@variscite.com>

Here there are a few formal/process-related mistakes:
- wait at least 24h before posting a new version
- please include the target tree name into the subj prefix

this looks like a fix, so it should possibly target net and include a
'Fixes' tag into the SoB area.

Please be sure to read and follow the process documentation and the
netdev specifics bit from the current kernel source.

Thanks,

Paolo