Re: [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] net: phy: micrel: Add PTP support for lan8842

[<Parthiban.Veerasooran@microchip.com>]

Hi Horatiu,

On 25/08/25 12:01 pm, Horatiu Vultur wrote:
> +	/* As the lan8814 and lan8842 has the same IP for the PTP block, the
> +	 * only difference is the number of the GPIOs, then make sure that the
> +	 * lan8842 initialized also the shared data pointer as this is used in
> +	 * all the PTP functions for lan8814. The lan8842 doesn't have multiple
> +	 * PHYs in the same package.
> +	 */
> +	addr = lanphy_read_page_reg(phydev, LAN8814_PAGE_COMMON_REGS,
> +				    LAN8842_STRAP_REG);
> +	addr &= LAN8842_STRAP_REG_PHYADDR_MASK;
> +	if (addr < 0)
> +		return addr;
> +
> +	devm_phy_package_join(&phydev->mdio.dev, phydev, addr,
> +			      sizeof(struct lan8814_shared_priv));
Shouldn't you check the return value of devm_phy_package_join()?
Apologies — I missed to comment in my previous review.

Best regards,
Parthiban V
> +	if (phy_package_init_once(phydev)) {
> +		ret = lan8842_ptp_probe_once(phydev);
> +		if (ret)
> +			return ret;
> +	}
> +
> +	lan8814_ptp_init(phydev);
> +
>   	return 0;
>   }