On Fri Nov 6, 2026 at 11:54 AM GMT, Breno Leitao wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 06, 2026 at 09:41:31AM +0000, Troy Mitchell wrote:
>> On Thu, 5 Nov 2026 23:28:31 +0100, Vadim Fedorenko wrote:
>> > > This would work, but I am wondering if it would be possible to call
>> > > rtnl inside the _open function, when dealing with the PHY? in other
>> > > words, shrink the time rtnl is held.
>> >
>> > +1, especially in emac_open() rtnl is needed only in error path case
>> 
>> emac_open() and emac_stop() are also the driver's .ndo_open and
>> .ndo_stop, which the core already calls with RTNL held, see
>> Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst +214. Taking rtnl_lock()
>> inside them would deadlock on every open and close, so the lock has to
>> stay in the PM callbacks.
>
> That makes sense to me.
>
> Reviewed-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
This tag is deprecated. Version 2 will use a different approach [1]

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Troy Mitchell