netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/2] net: phy: Unbind/bind fixes

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Date:   Tue, 7 Feb 2017 22:47:01 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, andrew@...n.ch,
        Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] net: phy: Unbind/bind fixes



On 02/05/2017 02:25 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This patch series addresses the inability to safely unbind and bind
> PHY drivers by making the appropriate checks throught PHYLIB where we
> may be directly responding to user-space queries, as well as from within
> the kernel state machine.
> 
> The second patch makes the unbind -> bind working by taking care of the
> PHY state machine state.

I need to make another set of fixes after "net: phy: Fix lack of
reference count on PHY driver" because the Generic PHY driver is of
course behaving differently and my testing was focused on every other
one but this one which is built-in...

> 
> Florian Fainelli (2):
>   net: phy: Check phydev->drv
>   net: phy: Fix PHY driver bind and unbind events
> 
>  drivers/net/phy/phy.c        | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>  include/linux/phy.h          |  3 +++
>  3 files changed, 50 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 

-- 
Florian