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-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
index c30348e402d..7c66727359d 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
@@ -2562,8 +2562,11 @@ static int __devinit emac_probe(struct of_device *ofdev,
struct device_node **blist = NULL;
int err, i;
- /* Skip unused/unwired EMACS */
- if (of_get_property(np, "unused", NULL))
+ /* Skip unused/unwired EMACS. We leave the check for an unused
+ * property here for now, but new flat device trees should set a
+ * status property to "disabled" instead.
+ */
+ if (of_get_property(np, "unused", NULL) || !of_device_is_available(np))
return -ENODEV;
/* Find ourselves in the bootlist if we are there */