netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] net: improve devres helpers

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Date:   Tue, 30 Jun 2020 12:30:26 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Cc:     Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>,
        Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>,
        Mark Lee <Mark-MC.Lee@...iatek.com>,
        Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@...il.com>,
        Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
        Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] net: improve devres helpers

On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 14:03:36 +0200 Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@...libre.com>
> 
> So it seems like there's no support for relaxing certain networking devres
> helpers to not require previously allocated structures to also be managed.
> However the way mdio devres variants are implemented is still wrong and I
> modified my series to address it while keeping the functions strict.
> 
> First two patches modify the ixgbe driver to get rid of the last user of
> devm_mdiobus_free().
> 
> Patches 3, 4, 5 and 6 are mostly cosmetic.
> 
> Patch 7 fixes the way devm_mdiobus_register() is implemented.
> 
> Patches 8 & 9 provide a managed variant of of_mdiobus_register() and
> last patch uses it in mtk-star-emac driver.
> 
> v1 -> v2:
> - drop the patch relaxing devm_register_netdev()
> - require struct mii_bus to be managed in devm_mdiobus_register() and
>   devm_of_mdiobus_register() but don't store that information in the
>   structure itself: use devres_find() instead

Acked-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>