[PATCH] RFC: Revert "net: phy: check return code when requesting PHY driver module"

[Guido Günther]

This unbreaks ethernet on e.g. the NXP imx8mq-evk using the fec driver.
Otherwise it fails like:

[    3.702671] device: '30be0000.ethernet-1': device_add
[    3.707783] PM: Adding info for No Bus:30be0000.ethernet-1
[    3.713329] libphy: fec_enet_mii_bus: probed
[    3.717815] mdio_bus 30be0000.ethernet-1:01: error -2 loading PHY driver 
module for ID 0x004dd074
[    3.726747] PM: Removing info for No Bus:30be0000.ethernet-1
[    3.732460] device: 'pps0': device_unregister
[    3.736911] PM: Removing info for No Bus:pps0
[    3.741317] device: 'ptp0': device_unregister
[    3.745761] PM: Removing info for No Bus:ptp0
[    3.750160] device: 'ptp0': device_create_release
[    3.755024] fec 30be0000.ethernet: Dropping the link to regulator.2
[    3.761359] fec: probe of 30be0000.ethernet failed with error -2

This reverts commit 13d0ab6750b20957ac1466da4e44dc0af746ff28.
---
On linux-next as somewhen starting at 2018-01-18 fec initialization
broke due to 13d0ab6750b20957ac1466da4e44dc0af746ff28. It welcome any
feedback how to fix this properly without eliminating the purpose of
the initial patch.

 drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 35 +++++------------------------------
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index b61db0a5ba3a..636303e50173 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -558,31 +558,12 @@ static const struct device_type mdio_bus_phy_type = {
        .pm = MDIO_BUS_PHY_PM_OPS,
 };
 
-static int phy_request_driver_module(struct phy_device *dev, int phy_id)
-{
-       int ret;
-
-       ret = request_module(MDIO_MODULE_PREFIX MDIO_ID_FMT,
-                            MDIO_ID_ARGS(phy_id));
-       /* we only check for failures in executing the usermode binary,
-        * not whether a PHY driver module exists for the PHY ID
-        */
-       if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MODULES) && ret < 0) {
-               phydev_err(dev, "error %d loading PHY driver module for ID 
0x%08x\n",
-                          ret, phy_id);
-               return ret;
-       }
-
-       return 0;
-}
-
 struct phy_device *phy_device_create(struct mii_bus *bus, int addr, int phy_id,
                                     bool is_c45,
                                     struct phy_c45_device_ids *c45_ids)
 {
        struct phy_device *dev;
        struct mdio_device *mdiodev;
-       int ret = 0;
 
        /* We allocate the device, and initialize the default values */
        dev = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev), GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -639,21 +620,15 @@ struct phy_device *phy_device_create(struct mii_bus *bus, 
int addr, int phy_id,
                        if (!(c45_ids->devices_in_package & (1 << i)))
                                continue;
 
-                       ret = phy_request_driver_module(dev,
-                                               c45_ids->device_ids[i]);
-                       if (ret)
-                               break;
+                       request_module(MDIO_MODULE_PREFIX MDIO_ID_FMT,
+                                      MDIO_ID_ARGS(c45_ids->device_ids[i]));
                }
        } else {
-               ret = phy_request_driver_module(dev, phy_id);
+               request_module(MDIO_MODULE_PREFIX MDIO_ID_FMT,
+                              MDIO_ID_ARGS(phy_id));
        }
 
-       if (!ret) {
-               device_initialize(&mdiodev->dev);
-       } else {
-               kfree(dev);
-               dev = ERR_PTR(ret);
-       }
+       device_initialize(&mdiodev->dev);
 
        return dev;
 }
-- 
2.20.1