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authorBoris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>2018-12-18 20:00:52 +0100
committerBoris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@bootlin.com>2018-12-18 20:00:52 +0100
commitf366d3854ec0fec0f9949dac46431598614a956b (patch)
treed60aa8b796ef2611b0ee28bccb38cca64a1aed2f /drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
parentccec4a4a4f27b22e51ec6a143319db49b7570581 (diff)
parentb422847877e35d6818f65cb359a60f529fe22c4b (diff)
Merge tag 'spi-nor/for-4.21' of git://git.infradead.org/linux-mtd into mtd/next
Core changes: - Parse the 4BAIT SFDP section - Add a bunch of SPI NOR entries to the flash_info table - Add the concept of SFDP fixups and use it to fix a bug on MX25L25635F - A bunch of minor cleanups/comestic changes
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index ab33d1777132..23ee3967c166 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -2197,6 +2197,14 @@ int phy_driver_register(struct phy_driver *new_driver, struct module *owner)
new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.remove = phy_remove;
new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.owner = owner;
+ /* The following works around an issue where the PHY driver doesn't bind
+ * to the device, resulting in the genphy driver being used instead of
+ * the dedicated driver. The root cause of the issue isn't known yet
+ * and seems to be in the base driver core. Once this is fixed we may
+ * remove this workaround.
+ */
+ new_driver->mdiodrv.driver.probe_type = PROBE_FORCE_SYNCHRONOUS;
+
retval = driver_register(&new_driver->mdiodrv.driver);
if (retval) {
pr_err("%s: Error %d in registering driver\n",