Only caller of get_phy_id() is get_phy_device(). There a PHY ID of 0xffffffff is translated back to -ENODEV. So we can avoid some overhead by returning -ENODEV directly.
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallwe...@gmail.com> --- drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 11 ++--------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c index e61e9083f..b94095d74 100644 --- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c +++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c @@ -755,15 +755,8 @@ static int get_phy_id(struct mii_bus *bus, int addr, u32 *phy_id, /* Grab the bits from PHYIR1, and put them in the upper half */ phy_reg = mdiobus_read(bus, addr, MII_PHYSID1); if (phy_reg < 0) { - /* if there is no device, return without an error so scanning - * the bus works properly - */ - if (phy_reg == -EIO || phy_reg == -ENODEV) { - *phy_id = 0xffffffff; - return 0; - } - - return -EIO; + /* returning -ENODEV doesn't stop bus scanning */ + return (phy_reg == -EIO || phy_reg == -ENODEV) ? -ENODEV : -EIO; } *phy_id = (phy_reg & 0xffff) << 16; -- 2.20.1