From: Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 08:13:42 -0300
> From: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Commit a71e3c37960ce5f9 ("net: phy: Set the driver when registering an MDIO bus
> device") caused the following regression on the fec driver:
...
> The problem with the original commit is explained by Russell King:
>
> "It has the effect (as can be seen from the oops) of attaching the MDIO bus
> device (itself is a bus-less device) to the platform driver, which means
> that if the platform driver supports power management, it will be called
> to power manage the MDIO bus device.
>
> Moreover, drivers do not expect to be called for power management
> operations for devices which they haven't probed, and certainly not for
> devices which aren't part of the same bus that the driver is registered
> against."
>
> This reverts commit a71e3c37960ce5f9c6a519bc1215e3ba9fa83e75.
>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> #3.16
> Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Applied, and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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