On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 10:31:45PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 19:51:26 +0000
> 
> > On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 00:25 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> >> Please queue up the following networking bug fixes for
> >> 3.0.x, 3.2.x, 3.4.x, and 3.6.x, respectively.
> > [...]
> >> From 2204849a85383fbde75680aa199142abe504adbb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> From: Peter Senna Tschudin <[email protected]>
> >> Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 06:12:01 +0000
> >> Subject: [PATCH 7/9] drivers/net/phy/mdio-bitbang.c: Call 
> >> mdiobus_unregister
> >>  before mdiobus_free
> >> 
> >> [ Upstream commit aa731872f7d33dcb8b54dad0cfb82d4e4d195d7e ]
> >> 
> >> Based on commit b27393aecf66199f5ddad37c302d3e0cfadbe6c0
> >> 
> >> Calling mdiobus_free without calling mdiobus_unregister causes
> >> BUG_ON(). This patch fixes the issue.
> > [...]
> > 
> > This introduces a regresssion, as mdiobus_unregister() is not safe to
> > call if the bus isn't registered.  Registration is controlled by the
> > drivers that use mdio-bitbang, and they should take care of
> > unregistration too - and most of them do.
> > 
> > This should be reverted in mainline and not applied to any stable
> > series.
> 
> Ok, I'll revert.
> 
> Greg, please toss it from your -stable queue as well.

Now tossed, thanks.

greg k-h
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