Commit b74766a0 authored by Sergei Shtylyov's avatar Sergei Shtylyov Committed by David S. Miller

phylib: don't return NULL from get_phy_device()

Arnd Bergmann asked that get_phy_device() returns either NULL or the error
value,  not both on error.  Do as he said, return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV) instead
of NULL when the PHY ID registers read as  all ones.
Suggested-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent f7967210
......@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@ struct phy_device *get_phy_device(struct mii_bus *bus, int addr, bool is_c45)
/* If the phy_id is mostly Fs, there is no device there */
if ((phy_id & 0x1fffffff) == 0x1fffffff)
return NULL;
return ERR_PTR(-ENODEV);
return phy_device_create(bus, addr, phy_id, is_c45, &c45_ids);
}
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