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| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 8 |
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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", |