From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: f.fainelli@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
aaro.koskinen@iki.fi, nevola@gmail.com, tremyfr@gmail.com,
asbjorn@asbjorn.st, jarod@redhat.com, bhaktipriya96@gmail.com,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon: Call SET_NETDEV_DEV()
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 22:20:20 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20161220.222020.1448709395205678279.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d5cd5832-4402-2468-9d64-0a8d6e62d965@gmail.com>
From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 17:02:37 -0800
> On 12/14/2016 05:13 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> The Octeon driver calls into PHYLIB which now checks for
>> net_device->dev.parent, so make sure we do set it before calling into
>> any MDIO/PHYLIB related function.
>>
>> Fixes: ec988ad78ed6 ("phy: Don't increment MDIO bus refcount unless it's a different owner")
>> Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
>
> Greg, David, since this is a fix for a regression introduced in the net
> tree, it may make sense that David take it via his tree.
Since the change in question is in Linus's tree, it's equally valid
for Greg to take it as well.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-12-21 3:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-12-15 1:13 [PATCH] staging: octeon: Call SET_NETDEV_DEV() Florian Fainelli
2016-12-21 1:02 ` Florian Fainelli
2016-12-21 3:20 ` David Miller [this message]
2016-12-27 22:15 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-01-03 16:11 ` Greg KH
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