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

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Message-Id: <20200630.155802.2190042564289803175.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 30 Jun 2020 15:58:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     brgl@...ev.pl
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/10] net: improve devres helpers

From: Bartosz Golaszewski <brgl@...ev.pl>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 14:03:36 +0200

> 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

Series applied, thank you.