Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Jul 2022 19:20:41 +0300 | From | Vladimir Oltean <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 4/9] net: pcs: lynx: Convert to an mdio driver |
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On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 12:16:17PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote: > > Curiously enough, mdio_device_create() only calls device_initialize(). > > It's mdio_device_register() that calls device_add(). So after this > > patch, we cannot call lynx_pcs_create() without calling > > mdio_device_register(). > > OK, so presumably we need to call mdio_device_register after mdio_device_create. > I suppose I should have caught this because patch 5 does exactly this.
And that's only to not crash during boot, mind you. Networking is broken at this stage. I'll proceed to patch 5 to see what happens next.
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