netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net] MIPS: lantiq: dma: add dev pointer

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Message-ID: <20180910124542.GB30395@lunn.ch>
Date:   Mon, 10 Sep 2018 14:45:42 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, f.fainelli@...il.com,
        john@...ozen.org, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
        hauke.mehrtens@...el.com, paul.burton@...s.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net] MIPS: lantiq: dma: add dev pointer

On Sun, Sep 09, 2018 at 09:26:23PM +0200, Hauke Mehrtens wrote:
> dma_zalloc_coherent() now crashes if no dev pointer is given.
> Add a dev pointer to the ltq_dma_channel structure and fill it in the
> driver using it.
> 
> This fixes a bug introduced in kernel 4.19.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>
> ---
> 
> no changes since v1.
> 
> This should go into kernel 4.19 and I have some other patches adding new 
> features for kernel 4.20 which are depending on this, so I would prefer 
> if this goes through the net tree. 

Hi Hauke

Is this a build time dependency, or a runtime dependency?

What we don't want to do is add the switch driver to net-next and find
it does not compile because this change is not in net-next yet.

   Andrew