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

[Leon Romanovsky]

On Thu, Nov 05, 2026 at 04:33:48PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > +		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.

You are right, thanks

> 
> 	Andrew