From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: brgl@bgdev.pl
Cc: corbet@lwn.net, matthias.bgg@gmail.com, john@phrozen.org,
sean.wang@mediatek.com, Mark-MC.Lee@mediatek.com,
kuba@kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, fparent@baylibre.com,
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stephane.leprovost@mediatek.com, pedro.tsai@mediatek.com,
andrew.perepech@mediatek.com, bgolaszewski@baylibre.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] net: provide a devres variant of register_netdev()
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 16:56:32 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200523.165632.2131763470920616688.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200523132711.30617-1-brgl@bgdev.pl>
From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@bgdev.pl>
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 15:27:06 +0200
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
>
> Using devres helpers allows to shrink the probing code, avoid memory leaks in
> error paths make sure the order in which resources are freed is the exact
> opposite of their allocation. This series proposes to add a devres variant
> of register_netdev() that will only work with net_device structures whose
> memory is also managed.
>
> First we add the missing documentation entry for the only other networking
> devres helper: devm_alloc_etherdev().
>
> Next we move devm_alloc_etherdev() into a separate source file.
>
> We then use a proxy structure in devm_alloc_etherdev() to improve readability.
>
> Last: we implement devm_register_netdev() and use it in mtk-eth-mac driver.
>
> v1 -> v2:
> - rebase on top of net-next after driver rename, no functional changes
Series applied, thank you.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-23 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-23 13:27 [PATCH v2 0/5] net: provide a devres variant of register_netdev() Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-05-23 13:27 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] Documentation: devres: add a missing section for networking helpers Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-05-23 13:27 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] net: move devres helpers into a separate source file Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-05-23 13:27 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] net: devres: define a separate devres structure for devm_alloc_etherdev() Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-05-23 13:27 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] net: devres: provide devm_register_netdev() Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-05-23 13:27 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] net: ethernet: mtk_star_emac: use devm_register_netdev() Bartosz Golaszewski
2020-05-23 23:56 ` David Miller [this message]
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