Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for May 18 (drivers/net/dsa/qca8k.c)

From: John Crispin <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 20:53:06 +0200

On 18.05.21 19:33, Andrew Lunn wrote:
>> Would something like this work?
>>
>> -----------------------------[ cut here ]-----------------------------
>> >From 36c0b3f04ebfa51e52bd1bc2dc447d12d1c6e119 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Vladimir Oltean <[email-masked]>
>> Date: Tue, 18 May 2021 19:39:18 +0300
>> Subject: [PATCH] net: mdio: provide shim implementation of
>>   devm_of_mdiobus_register
>>
>> Similar to the way in which of_mdiobus_register() has a fallback to the
>> non-DT based mdiobus_register() when CONFIG_OF is not set, we can create
>> a shim for the device-managed devm_of_mdiobus_register() which calls
>> devm_mdiobus_register() and discards the struct device_node *.
>>
>> In particular, this solves a build issue with the qca8k DSA driver which
>> uses devm_of_mdiobus_register and can be compiled without CONFIG_OF.
>>
>> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <[email-masked]>
>> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <[email-masked]>
> This should be O.K.
>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]>
>
> Thanks
>      Andrew

Just did a x86 build with the patch applied and it completed ...

Acked-by: John Crispin <[email-masked]>