On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 02:29:03PM +0200, Andrew Lunn wrote: > What i think is better is to make fixed_phy_add() return -EPROBE_DEFER > if it is called before fixed_mdio_bus_init().
I don't see how this will work for platforms such as ar7 and bcm47xx which call fixed_phy_add() from platform code. There is no probe to retry there so while the EPROBE_DEFER will certainly fix the crash it will also leave the platforms without a phy.
