Re: [PATCH RESEND net-next] net: dsa: felix: allow the device to be disabled

From: David Miller
Date: Mon May 04 2020 - 14:16:27 EST


From: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 18:52:28 +0200

> If there is no specific configuration of the felix switch in the device
> tree, but only the default configuration (ie. given by the SoCs dtsi
> file), the probe fails because no CPU port has been set. On the other
> hand you cannot set a default CPU port because that depends on the
> actual board using the switch.
>
> [ 2.701300] DSA: tree 0 has no CPU port
> [ 2.705167] mscc_felix 0000:00:00.5: Failed to register DSA switch: -22
> [ 2.711844] mscc_felix: probe of 0000:00:00.5 failed with error -22
>
> Thus let the device tree disable this device entirely, like it is also
> done with the enetc driver of the same SoC.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Walle <michael@xxxxxxxx>

Applied, thank you.