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Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon: Call SET_NETDEV_DEV()

From David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon: Call SET_NETDEV_DEV()
Date 2016-12-21 04:30 +0100
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From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 17:02:37 -0800

> On 12/14/2016 05:13 PM, Florian Fainelli wrote:
>> The Octeon driver calls into PHYLIB which now checks for
>> net_device->dev.parent, so make sure we do set it before calling into
>> any MDIO/PHYLIB related function.
>> 
>> Fixes: ec988ad78ed6 ("phy: Don't increment MDIO bus refcount unless it's a different owner")
>> Reported-by: Aaro Koskinen <aaro.koskinen@iki.fi>
>> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
> 
> Greg, David, since this is a fix for a regression introduced in the net
> tree, it may make sense that David take it via his tree.

Since the change in question is in Linus's tree, it's equally valid
for Greg to take it as well.

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[PATCH] staging: octeon: Call SET_NETDEV_DEV() Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2016-12-15 02:20 +0100
  Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon: Call SET_NETDEV_DEV() Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2016-12-21 02:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon: Call SET_NETDEV_DEV() David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> - 2016-12-21 04:30 +0100
      Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon: Call SET_NETDEV_DEV() Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> - 2016-12-27 23:20 +0100
        Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon: Call SET_NETDEV_DEV() Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2017-01-03 17:20 +0100

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