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

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Tue May 18 2021 - 13:33:34 EST


> Would something like this work?
>
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> >From 36c0b3f04ebfa51e52bd1bc2dc447d12d1c6e119 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx>
> 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 <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@xxxxxxxxx>

This should be O.K.

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

Thanks
Andrew