From: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 16983507742cbcaa5592af530872a82e82fb9c51 ] If we have scenarios like mdiobus_register() -> loads PHY driver module(s) -> registers PHY driver(s) -> may schedule async probe phydev = mdiobus_get_phy() <phydev action involving PHY driver> or phydev = phy_device_create() -> loads PHY driver module -> registers PHY driver -> may schedule async probe <phydev action involving PHY driver> then we expect the PHY driver to be bound to the phydev when triggering the action. This may not be the case in case of asynchronous probing. Therefore ensure that PHY drivers are probed synchronously. Default still is sync probing, except async probing is explicitly requested. I saw some comments that the intention is to promote async probing for more parallelism in boot process and want to be prepared for the case that the default is changed to async probing. Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c index fe34e85c0e163..634b4c89f8c8b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c @@ -2527,6 +2527,7 @@ int phy_driver_register(struct phy_driver *new_driver, struct module *owner) new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.probe = phy_probe; new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.remove = phy_remove; new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.owner = owner; + new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.probe_type = PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS; retval = driver_register(&new_driver->mdiodrv.driver); if (retval) { -- 2.20.1