[PATCH 2/2] net: axienet: Fix resource release ordering
Sean Anderson
sean.anderson at linux.dev
Mon Jan 12 06:53:28 PST 2026
On 1/10/26 14:53, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2026 12:40:51 +0530 Suraj Gupta wrote:
>> Device-managed resources are released after manually-managed resources.
>> Therefore, once any manually-managed resource is acquired, all further
>> resources must be manually-managed too.
>
> only for resources which have dependencies. Please include in the commit
> message what exactly is going wrong in this driver. The commit under
> Fixes seems to be running ioremap, I don't see how that matters vs
> netdev allocation for example..
In the series I originally submitted this in, I wanted to add a devm
resources (mdio bus etc.) at the end of probe that required the clocks
to be running. But as a standalone patch this is more of a cleanup.
>> Convert all resources before the MDIO bus is created into device-managed
>> resources. In all cases but one there are already devm variants available.
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