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Commit ac3a68d5 authored by Bartosz Golaszewski's avatar Bartosz Golaszewski Committed by David S. Miller
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net: phy: don't abuse devres in devm_mdiobus_register()



We currently have two managed helpers for mdiobus - devm_mdiobus_alloc()
and devm_mdiobus_register(). The idea behind devres is that the release
callback releases whatever resource the devm function allocates. In the
mdiobus case however there's no devres associated with the device by
devm_mdiobus_register(). Instead the release callback for
devm_mdiobus_alloc(): _devm_mdiobus_free() unregisters the device if
it is marked as managed.

This all seems wrong. The managed structure shouldn't need to know or
care about whether it's managed or not - and this is the case now for
struct mii_bus. The devres wrapper should be opaque to the managed
resource.

This changeset makes devm_mdiobus_alloc() and devm_mdiobus_register()
conform to common devres standards: devm_mdiobus_alloc() allocates a
devres structure and registers a callback that will call mdiobus_free().
__devm_mdiobus_register() allocated another devres and registers a
callback that will unregister the bus.

Signed-off-by: default avatarBartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 6a9a5723
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