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From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Jeremy Linton <jeremy.linton@arm.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, steve.glendinning@shawell.net,
	sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: smsc911x: Fix register_netdev, phy startup, driver unload ordering
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 21:22:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160901192243.GA13292@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a33771de-a591-d65e-90e8-33860100e40a@arm.com>

> This patch does add additional code I overlooked to cleanup the phy
> if it fails, I guess in theory that portion could be a prereq patch,
> I will break that portion out. I'm still not sure how to partially
> move the MDIO startup...

Hi Jeremy

You can add a cleanup patch which replaces these hard coded return
values with the value returned by the function calls. Then do the
move.

In general, it is easier to review lots of small obvious patches, than
one big patch with lots of things going on.

    Andrew

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-01 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-01 16:25 [PATCH 0/2] net: smsc911x: Move phy and interrupt config Jeremy Linton
2016-09-01 16:25 ` [PATCH 1/2] net: smsc911x: Fix register_netdev, phy startup, driver unload ordering Jeremy Linton
2016-09-01 16:58   ` Andrew Lunn
2016-09-01 18:42     ` Jeremy Linton
2016-09-01 19:22       ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2016-09-01 16:25 ` [PATCH 2/2] net/smsc911x: Move interrupt allocation to open/stop Jeremy Linton
2016-09-01 17:06   ` Andrew Lunn
2016-09-01 18:47     ` Jeremy Linton
2016-09-01 19:45       ` Andrew Lunn
2016-09-01 20:39         ` Jeremy Linton

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