From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon: Call SET_NETDEV_DEV() Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2016 22:20:20 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <20161220.222020.1448709395205678279.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20161215011326.8852-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, asbjorn@asbjorn.st, aaro.koskinen@iki.fi, netdev@vger.kernel.org, nevola@gmail.com, bhaktipriya96@gmail.com, jarod@redhat.com, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tremyfr@gmail.com To: f.fainelli@gmail.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: driverdev-devel-bounces@linuxdriverproject.org Sender: "devel" List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Florian Fainelli 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 >> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli > > 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.