Re: [PATCH] netdev/phy: skip disabled mdio-mux nodes

David Daney wrote:

Although this will get the job done, I don't think it is the cleanest 
approach.

Would it be better to create a new iterator 
(for_each_available_child_of_node perhaps) that skips the unavailable 
nodes?  This seems like a general problem that is not restricted to mdio 
multiplexers.

You're probably right, but this is how it's normally done.  If you're
going to scan child nodes manually, you have to skip disabled nodes.

If someone else wants to implement for_each_available_child_of_node(), I'm
all for it, but such a patch would not be merged until 3.7.  I was hoping
to have my patch applied to 3.6, since it fixes a real bug.

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Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale