From: Bartosz Golaszewski <b...@bgdev.pl> Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 15:27:06 +0200
> From: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszew...@baylibre.com> > > Using devres helpers allows to shrink the probing code, avoid memory leaks in > error paths make sure the order in which resources are freed is the exact > opposite of their allocation. This series proposes to add a devres variant > of register_netdev() that will only work with net_device structures whose > memory is also managed. > > First we add the missing documentation entry for the only other networking > devres helper: devm_alloc_etherdev(). > > Next we move devm_alloc_etherdev() into a separate source file. > > We then use a proxy structure in devm_alloc_etherdev() to improve readability. > > Last: we implement devm_register_netdev() and use it in mtk-eth-mac driver. > > v1 -> v2: > - rebase on top of net-next after driver rename, no functional changes Series applied, thank you.
