From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
To: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>,
Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>,
Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Kurt Kanzenbach <kurt@linutronix.de>,
Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@hauke-m.de>,
Woojung Huh <woojung.huh@microchip.com>,
UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com, Sean Wang <sean.wang@mediatek.com>,
Landen Chao <Landen.Chao@mediatek.com>,
DENG Qingfang <dqfext@gmail.com>,
Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
Claudiu Manoil <claudiu.manoil@nxp.com>,
Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com>,
Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
George McCollister <george.mccollister@gmail.com>,
Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>,
Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Oleksij Rempel <linux@rempel-privat.de>,
Michael Grzeschik <m.grzeschik@pengutronix.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org,
Lino Sanfilippo <LinoSanfilippo@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net 1/5] net: mdio: introduce a shutdown method to mdio device drivers
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2021 09:14:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <c745be4c-2b7f-3f36-36ce-75ae8601a697@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210912120932.993440-2-vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
On 9/12/2021 5:09 AM, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> MDIO-attached devices might have interrupts and other things that might
> need quiesced when we kexec into a new kernel. Things are even more
> creepy when those interrupt lines are shared, and in that case it is
> absolutely mandatory to disable all interrupt sources.
>
> Moreover, MDIO devices might be DSA switches, and DSA needs its own
> shutdown method to unlink from the DSA master, which is a new
> requirement that appeared after commit 2f1e8ea726e9 ("net: dsa: link
> interfaces with the DSA master to get rid of lockdep warnings").
>
> So introduce a ->shutdown method in the MDIO device driver structure.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
--
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-12 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-12 12:09 [RFC PATCH net 0/5] Make DSA switch drivers compatible with masters which unregister on shutdown Vladimir Oltean
2021-09-12 12:09 ` [RFC PATCH net 1/5] net: mdio: introduce a shutdown method to mdio device drivers Vladimir Oltean
2021-09-12 16:14 ` Florian Fainelli [this message]
2021-09-13 13:10 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-09-12 12:09 ` [RFC PATCH net 2/5] net: dsa: be compatible with masters which unregister on shutdown Vladimir Oltean
2021-09-12 13:18 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-09-13 13:23 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-09-13 13:31 ` Vladimir Oltean
2021-09-13 13:34 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-09-14 1:30 ` Andrew Lunn
2021-09-13 16:56 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-09-12 12:09 ` [RFC PATCH net 3/5] net: dsa: hellcreek: " Vladimir Oltean
2021-09-13 16:50 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-09-14 8:08 ` Kurt Kanzenbach
2021-09-12 12:09 ` [RFC PATCH net 4/5] net: dsa: microchip: ksz8863: " Vladimir Oltean
2021-09-13 16:51 ` Florian Fainelli
2021-09-12 12:09 ` [RFC PATCH net 5/5] net: dsa: xrs700x: " Vladimir Oltean
2021-09-13 13:38 ` George McCollister
2021-09-13 16:51 ` Florian Fainelli
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