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

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On Mon, 29 Jun 2020 14:03:36 +0200 Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> 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@xxxxxxxxxx>



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