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[PATCH net 1/3] net: ethernet: ixgbe: don't propagate -ENODEV from ixgbe_mii_bus_init()

From: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
Date: 2021-03-04 01:14:30
Subsystem: intel ethernet drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers: Tony Nguyen, Przemek Kitszel, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

From: Bartosz Golaszewski <redacted>

It's a valid use-case for ixgbe_mii_bus_init() to return -ENODEV - we
still want to finalize the registration of the ixgbe device. Check the
error code and don't bail out if err == -ENODEV.

This fixes an issue on C3000 family of SoCs where four ixgbe devices
share a single MDIO bus and ixgbe_mii_bus_init() returns -ENODEV for
three of them but we still want to register them.

Fixes: 09ef193fef7e ("net: ethernet: ixgbe: check the return value of ixgbe_mii_bus_init()")
Reported-by: Yongxin Liu <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <redacted>
Tested-by: Tony Brelinski <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index fae84202d870..aa3b0a7ab786 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -11033,7 +11033,7 @@ static int ixgbe_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent)
 			true);
 
 	err = ixgbe_mii_bus_init(hw);
-	if (err)
+	if (err && err != -ENODEV)
 		goto err_netdev;
 
 	return 0;
-- 
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