netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/7] phy: fix of_mdio_find

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Message-Id: <20150921.120159.326170798236851436.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 21 Sep 2015 12:01:59 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/7] phy: fix of_mdio_find_bus() device refcount leak

From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@....linux.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2015 10:54:55 +0100

> Update the comment, and arrange for the only user of this function
> to drop this refcount when disposing of a reference to it.

mdio_mux is not the only user of of_mdio_find_bus(), DSA uses it as
well.

So if anything this commit message is inaccurate.

I also wonder about this refcounting scheme.

If you are going to drop the inner device reference, then we take the
mdio bus returned from of_mdio_find_bus() what holds onto it and keeps
it from disappearing on us?

Don't we have to hold onto some reference count of some kind here?
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