Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net/phy/mdio-mscc-miim: Move the setting of mii_bus structure members in mscc_miim_probe()

From: Andrew Lunn <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 21:13:50 +0200

On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 09:03:57PM +0200, Markus Elfring wrote:
> From: Markus Elfring <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2019 20:42:42 +0200
> 
> Move the modification of some members in the data structure “mii_bus”
> for the local variable “bus” directly before the call of
> the function “of_mdiobus_register” so that this change will be performed
> only after previous resource allocations succeeded.

Hi Markus

I'm not sure it is worth making this change. The resource allocations
succeeds 99.9999% of the time. It is a chunk of MMIO, not some gpio,
or i2c device which might give us EPROBE_DEFERRED. So we are not
wasting anything in reality.

	Andrew