Currently DSA ignores any errors coming from dsa_port_setup(), and this includes: dsa_port_setup -> dsa_slave_create -> dsa_slave_phy_setup -> phylink_of_phy_connect -> ... -> phy_attach_direct This is done such that PHYs present on optional riser cards which are missing do not cause the entire switch probing to fail. Now that phy_attach_direct tries harder to probe the specific PHY driver instead of genphy, it can actually return -EPROBE_DEFER. It makes sense to treat this error separately, and not just give up. Trigger the normal error path, unwind the setup done so far, and come back later. Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx> --- net/dsa/dsa2.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/dsa/dsa2.c b/net/dsa/dsa2.c index e78901d33a10..282bdebac835 100644 --- a/net/dsa/dsa2.c +++ b/net/dsa/dsa2.c @@ -912,6 +912,8 @@ static int dsa_tree_setup_switches(struct dsa_switch_tree *dst) list_for_each_entry(dp, &dst->ports, list) { err = dsa_port_setup(dp); + if (err == -EPROBE_DEFER) + goto teardown; if (err) { dsa_port_devlink_teardown(dp); dp->type = DSA_PORT_TYPE_UNUSED; -- 2.25.1