net: phy: add workaround for issue where PHY driver doesn't bind to the device

[linux.git] / drivers / net / phy / phy_device.c

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
index ab33d1777132e62a141e7ca76c11ef694a6f4e63..23ee3967c166713bac24906f1705a53c8eed8d70 100644 (file)
--- 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",