Re: [PATCH net v4 0/4] net: phy: dp83640: fix shared clock lifetime and probe error cleanup

On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 10:34:17PM +0800, luoxuanqiang wrote:
> Hi Richard,
> 
> 在 2026/8/11 21:11, Richard Cochran 写道:
> > On Fri, Aug 07, 2026 at 03:07:25PM +0800, [email protected] wrote:
> > > From: Xuanqiang Luo <[email protected]>
> > > 
> > > The DP83640 driver shares one PTP clock between all PHYs on the same MII
> > > bus.
> > > 
> > > Its driver-local clock lookup and removal scheme can leak the shared clock
> > > on probe failure or free it while another probe is acquiring it.
> > Is this an actual problem that you have seen in the real world?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Richard
> 
> No, I have not observed this on real hardware.

Do you at least have the real hardware, and are testing your patches
on it?

   Andrew