Sebastian,
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 09:32:43PM +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
> Using a separated mdio bus driver with mvmdio, phy_detach on network device
> removal will not stop the phy and finally lead to NULL pointer dereference
> in mvmdio due to non-existent network device. Use phy_disconnect instead
> to properly stop phy device from accessing network device prior removal of
> the network device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth <sebastian.hesselba...@gmail.com>
> ---
> Note: I observed this behavior when removing a modular mv643xx_eth driver
> after attaching it to a phy handled by (also modular) mvmdio. The mvmdio
> conversion has been done in
>
> commit c3a07134e6aa5b93a37f72ffa3d11fadf72bf757
> ("mv643xx_eth: convert to use the Marvell Orion MDIO driver")
>
> and should go back any -stable version with that commit (propably only 3.9)
It looks like just v3.10-rcX, here.
thx,
Jason.
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