netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: sfp: rework upstream interface

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite for Android: free password hash cracker in your pocket

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Sat, 09 Nov 2019 19:36:06 -0800 (PST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, hkallweit1@...il.com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: sfp: rework upstream interface

From: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2019 17:39:29 +0000

> The current upstream interface is an all-or-nothing, which is
> sub-optimal for future changes, as it doesn't allow the upstream driver
> to prepare for the SFP module becoming available, as it is at boot.
> 
> Switch to a find-sfp-bus, add-upstream, del-upstream, put-sfp-bus
> interface structure instead, which allows the upstream driver to
> prepare for a module being available as soon as add-upstream is called.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@...linux.org.uk>

Applied to net-next, thanks.