Re: [RFC PATCH net 1/5] net: mdio: introduce a shutdown method to mdio device drivers

[Andrew Lunn]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 03:09:28PM +0300, Vladimir Oltean wrote:
> MDIO-attached devices might have interrupts and other things that might
> need quiesced when we kexec into a new kernel. Things are even more
> creepy when those interrupt lines are shared, and in that case it is
> absolutely mandatory to disable all interrupt sources.
> 
> Moreover, MDIO devices might be DSA switches, and DSA needs its own
> shutdown method to unlink from the DSA master, which is a new
> requirement that appeared after commit 2f1e8ea726e9 ("net: dsa: link
> interfaces with the DSA master to get rid of lockdep warnings").
> 
> So introduce a ->shutdown method in the MDIO device driver structure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@xxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

    Andrew