Hi all, This patch series addresses the inability to safely unbind and bind PHY drivers by making the appropriate checks throught PHYLIB where we may be directly responding to user-space queries, as well as from within the kernel state machine.
The second patch makes the unbind -> bind working by taking care of the PHY state machine state. Changes in v2: - fixed net: phy: Fix lack of reference count on PHY driver against the Generic PHY driver which is special Florian Fainelli (3): net: phy: Fix PHY module checks net: phy: Check phydev->drv net: phy: Fix PHY driver bind and unbind events drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++---- drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- include/linux/phy.h | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 55 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) -- 2.9.3
