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Commit d33dae51 authored by Russell King (Oracle)'s avatar Russell King (Oracle) Committed by David S. Miller
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net: phy: add a note about refcounting



Recently, a patch has been submitted to "fix" the refcounting for a DT
node in of_mdiobus_link_mdiodev(). This is not a leaked refcount. The
refcount is passed to the new device.

Sadly, coccicheck identifies this location as a leaked refcount, which
means we're likely to keep getting patches to "fix" this. However,
fixing this will cause breakage. Add a comment to state that the lack
of of_node_put() here is intentional.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent be565ec7
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