Re: [PATCH 03/17] net: phy: Attach generic PHY drivers through the driver core

[Andrew Lunn]

> +		if (err == -EBUSY) {
> +			/* Another bind owns the PHY, so nothing was probed here. */
> +			irq = phydev->irq;
> +			err = -EPROBE_DEFER;
> +		} else if (err == -EAGAIN) {
> +			err = -EPROBE_DEFER;

You cannot return -EPROBE_DEFER here. You are not guaranteed to be in
the context of a probe. Very likely, you are in the middle of the
ethernet drives open() call. Both probes happened a long time ago.

	Andrew