phylink: Improve error message when validate failed

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This should improve the error message when the PHY validate in the MAC
driver failed. I ran into this problem multiple times that I put wrong
interface values into the device tree and was searching why it is
failing with -22 (-EINVAL). This should make it easier to spot the
problem.

Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Hauke Mehrtens 2020-03-02 00:55:02 +01:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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