net: phy: aquantia: check for NVMEM deferral

Currently, if NVMEM provider is probed later than Aquantia, loading the
firmware will fail with -EINVAL.

To fix this, simply check for -EPROBE_DEFER when NVMEM is attempted and
return it.

Fixes: e93984ebc1c8 ("net: phy: aquantia: add firmware load support")
Signed-off-by: Robert Marko <robimarko@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251127114514.460924-1-robimarko@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/aquantia/aquantia_firmware.c b/drivers/net/phy/aquantia/aquantia_firmware.c
index bbbcc9736b00e1cfa193f4398889a4c172ca27a4..569256152689f868c3be7d22f92327639d9753ea 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/phy/aquantia/aquantia_firmware.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/aquantia/aquantia_firmware.c
@@ -369,7 +369,7 @@ int aqr_firmware_load(struct phy_device *phydev)
                 * assume that, and load a new image.
                 */
                ret = aqr_firmware_load_nvmem(phydev);
-               if (!ret)
+               if (ret == -EPROBE_DEFER || !ret)
                        return ret;
 
                ret = aqr_firmware_load_fs(phydev);