On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 07:58:18PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > > I tried to explain to you that I can't. We enter the device > configuration mode (from the operation mode) when e.g. the > *Ethernet* device is closed. Is this a hardware restriction? Logically speaking, the clock has nothing to do with the state of the Ethernet interface. If the clock keeps ticking and you can access it, then there is no reason to return EBUSY just because the interface is down. Thanks, Richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe devicetree" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html