On Tue, 9 Apr 2024 05:57:15 -0700 Breno Leitao wrote: > For dummy devices, exit earlier at free_netdev() instead of executing > the whole function. This is necessary, because dummy devices are > special, and shouldn't have the second part of the function executed. > > Otherwise reg_state, which is NETREG_DUMMY for dummy devices, will be > overwritten and there will be no way to identify that this is a dummy > device. Also, this device do not need the final put_device(), since > dummy devices are not registered (through register_netdevice()), where > the device reference is increased (at netdev_register_kobject() -> > device_add()). There's a small fuzz when applying due to the phy topo changes landing, please rebase, the CI didn't ingest it right. -- pw-bot: cr
