From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932993AbcL0WQE (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Dec 2016 17:16:04 -0500 Received: from mail-pg0-f68.google.com ([74.125.83.68]:35864 "EHLO mail-pg0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932188AbcL0WQA (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Dec 2016 17:16:00 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon: Call SET_NETDEV_DEV() To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org References: <20161215011326.8852-1-f.fainelli@gmail.com> <20161220.222020.1448709395205678279.davem@davemloft.net> Cc: David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org, aaro.koskinen@iki.fi, nevola@gmail.com, tremyfr@gmail.com, asbjorn@asbjorn.st, jarod@redhat.com, bhaktipriya96@gmail.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Florian Fainelli Message-ID: <748b758b-7a9c-d58e-2fa5-52b6fa031ae3@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2016 14:15:57 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20161220.222020.1448709395205678279.davem@davemloft.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/20/2016 07:20 PM, David Miller wrote: > 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. Sure, Greg, can you take this change? Thank you! -- Florian