Patch "of_mdio: avoid MDIO bus removal when a PHY is missing" has been added to the 4.14-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

of_mdio: avoid MDIO bus removal when a PHY is missing

to the 4.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
of_mdio-avoid-mdio-bus-removal-when-a-phy-is-missing.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.14 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Madalin Bucur <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 2018 14:43:34 +0200
Subject: of_mdio: avoid MDIO bus removal when a PHY is missing

From: Madalin Bucur <[email protected]>

[ Upstream commit 95f566de0269a0c59fd6a737a147731302136429 ]

If one of the child devices is missing the of_mdiobus_register_phy() call will return -ENODEV. When a missing device is encountered the registration of the remaining PHYs is stopped and the MDIO bus will fail to register. Propagate all errors except ENODEV to avoid it.

---
 drivers/of/of_mdio.c |    9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -228,7 +228,12 @@ int of_mdiobus_register(struct mii_bus *
 			rc = of_mdiobus_register_phy(mdio, child, addr);
 		else
 			rc = of_mdiobus_register_device(mdio, child, addr);
-		if (rc)
+
+		if (rc == -ENODEV)
+			dev_err(&mdio->dev,
+				"MDIO device at address %d is missing.\n",
+				addr);
+		else if (rc)
 			goto unregister;
 	}
 

@@ -252,7 +257,7 @@ int of_mdiobus_register(struct mii_bus *
 
 			if (of_mdiobus_child_is_phy(child)) {
 				rc = of_mdiobus_register_phy(mdio, child, addr);
-				if (rc)
+				if (rc && rc != -ENODEV)
 					goto unregister;
 			}
 		}

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.14/of_mdio-avoid-mdio-bus-removal-when-a-phy-is-missing.patch