3.16.40-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Johan Hovold <[email protected]> commit 86e1d5adcef961eb383ce4eacbe0ef22f06e2045 upstream. Make sure to drop the reference taken by of_find_device_by_node() when looking up an mdio device from a phy_id property during probe. Fixes: 549985ee9c72 ("cpsw: simplify the setup of the register pointers") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: adjust context, indentation] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> --- drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/cpsw.c @@ -1939,6 +1939,7 @@ static int cpsw_probe_dt(struct cpsw_pla } snprintf(slave_data->phy_id, sizeof(slave_data->phy_id), PHY_ID_FMT, mdio->name, phyid); + put_device(&mdio->dev); mac_addr = of_get_mac_address(slave_node); if (mac_addr)
