Re: [PATCH 8/9] net: mdio: ipq4019: add qca8084 configurations

[Jie Luo]

On 11/17/2023 1:08 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > Yes, the clock driver of qca8084 is probed as the MDIO device, the
> > configuration sequence here to lighten the qca8084 PHY need to
> > be completed before the clock APIs available to call.
>
> Please cleanly separate clock from MDIO. The MDIO driver should only
> use the common clock framework API calls. If the clock driver is not
> loaded yet, trying to get a clock should return -EPROBE_DEFER. The
> MDIO driver should return that from its probe function. The driver
> core will then try to probe the MDIO driver later, by which time the
> clock driver should of loaded.
>
>        Andrew

Ok, will update the patches to take this solution using the clock
consume APIs. Thanks Andrew for the suggestion.