Re: [PATCH net v2 5/5] net: qcom/emac: fix of_node and phydev leaks

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Tue Jan 10 2017 - 03:43:36 EST


On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 01:49:53PM -0600, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On 11/24/2016 12:21 PM, Johan Hovold wrote:
> > + if (!has_acpi_companion(&pdev->dev))
> > + put_device(&adpt->phydev->mdio.dev);
>
> I was wondering if, instead of calling put_device() only on non-ACPI systems,
> would it be better if on an ACPI system I called get_device() manually? That
> is, some thing like this:
>
> int emac_phy_config(struct platform_device *pdev, struct emac_adapter *adpt)
> {
> ...
> if (has_acpi_companion(&pdev->dev)) {
> ...
> get_device(&mii_bus->dev);
> } else {
> ...

Yeah, that's better.

Thanks,
Johan