Re: [PATCH net-next V7 4/4] devlink: Apply eswitch mode boot defaults

Jiri Pirko <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Jul 2026 13:00:52 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-rdma,org.kernel.vger.linux-doc,org.kernel.vger.netdev
Message-ID <amsu3mbWht_pc4KJ@FV6GYCPJ69>
Thu, Jul 30, 2026 at 01:06:08AM +0200, [email protected] wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:11:53 +0200 Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> >Maybe a middle ground would be to add a dedicated devl_init_unlock()*
>> >were we can stick such init? Slap a WARN_ON(!registered) in the normal
>> >unlock? I don't want the normal unlock to grow in complexity like
>> >rtnl_unlock ended up growing.  
>> 
>> Yep, that was +- my idea when I suggested this, to have this in a
>> separate helper.
>> 
>> devl_unlock_in_init()
>> ?
>
>Maybe "after_init()" ? "in" sounds like we can release it multiple
>times but I think the idea is that it's the final, single "release 
>into the wild" unlock.

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