On Apr 30, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:

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Yes, I agree. Did another patch for that, but haven't send it yet.
AFAICS, mvebu platforms will never hit the deferred case as the irqchip
is the first driver registered (as per drivers/Makefile).

Not that we should count on that :)

It doesn't hit it _now_ because of the above. I read about proper
platform_device for early devices here and there over and over
again, so I guess some day it may become an issue.

As we know about the potential -EPROBE_DEFER now, I suggest to
deal with it now, too.

Can you resend this as v2 with the other patch you mentioned
squashed in?

Oh! I've just remembered why I didn't send the EPROBE_DEFER patch in the first
place. The mvneta driver connects to the phy at open()-time, in a function
called "mvneta_mdio_probe()". This name confused me to think the mdio was
really probed at open()-time.

I guess it was very late at night when I came to such conclusion :)
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