On Thu, 2023-04-06 at 12:59 +0300, Radu Pirea (OSS) wrote: > Unregister PTP clock when the driver is removed. > Purge the RX and TX skb queues. > > Fixes: 514def5dd339 ("phy: nxp-c45-tja11xx: add timestamping support") > CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # 5.15+ > Signed-off-by: Radu Pirea (OSS) <radu-nicolae.pirea@xxxxxxxxxxx> Andrew: my understanding is that a connected phy, maintains a reference to the relevant driver via phydev->mdio.dev.driver->owner, and such reference is dropped by phy_disconnect() via phy_detach(). So remove can invoked only after phy_disconnect Does the above sounds reasonable/answer your question? Thanks Paolo