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Date:   Tue, 12 Dec 2023 18:48:09 +0000
From:   Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To:     Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: stmmac: Handle disabled MDIO busses from
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On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 03:31:17PM -0600, Andrew Halaney wrote:
> Many hardware configurations have the MDIO bus disabled, and are instead
> using some other MDIO bus to talk to the MAC's phy.
> 
> of_mdiobus_register() returns -ENODEV in this case. Let's handle it
> gracefully instead of failing to probe the MAC.
> 
> Fixes: 47dd7a540b8a (net: add support for STMicroelectronics Ethernet controllers.")

nit: the tag above is malformed, there is a '"' missing before 'net:'.

  Fixes: 47dd7a540b8a ("net: add support for STMicroelectronics Ethernet controllers.")


> Signed-off-by: Andrew Halaney <ahalaney@redhat.com>

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