[PATCH net v2 8/9] net: ethernet: mediatek: use devm_mdiobus_alloc instead of mdiobus_alloc inside mtk_mdio_init

Andrew Lunn andrew at lunn.ch
Mon Aug 29 06:06:28 PDT 2016


On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 01:03:22PM +0800, sean.wang at mediatek.com wrote:
> From: Sean Wang <sean.wang at mediatek.com>
> 
> a lot of parts in the driver uses devm_* APIs to gain benefits from the
> device resource management, so devm_mdiobus_alloc is also used instead
> of mdiobus_alloc to have more elegant code flow.
> 
> Using common code provided by the devm_* helps to
> 1) have simplified the code flow as [1] says
> 2) decrease the risk of incorrect error handling by human
> 3) only a few drivers used it since it ware proposed on linux 3.16,
> so just hope to promote for this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sean Wang <sean.wang at mediatek.com>
> 
> ---
> ref.
> [1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/344093/
> ---

Hi Sean

Your footnote is below the ---, so won't make it into the change log. 

Apart from that,

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew at lunn.ch>

    Andrew



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