netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: smsc911x: handle suspend/resume for mii bus

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Date:	Wed, 13 Aug 2014 22:14:32 +0200
From:	Daniel Mack <zonque@...il.com>
To:	Fabio Estevam <festevam@...il.com>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
	Ezequiel Garcia <ezequiel.garcia@...e-electrons.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: smsc911x: handle suspend/resume for mii bus

Hi Fabio,

On 08/13/2014 10:09 PM, Fabio Estevam wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:03 PM, Daniel Mack <zonque@...il.com> wrote:
>> Since commit a71e3c37960c ("net: phy: Set the driver when registering
>> an MDIO bus device"), the ->driver pointers of all mii buses are set to
>> the parent device's driver. This means that smsc911x_{suspend,resume}
>> will be called for the MII bus at suspend time now, in addition to the
>> actual netdev suspend callbacks.
> 
> This commit has been reverted in mainline:
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c?id=ce7991e8198b80eb6b4441b6f6114bea4a665d66
> 

Ah, same conclusion there, so all's good :)

Thanks for the pointer, and please drop my patch then.


Daniel
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