netdev - Re: [PATCH net 2/4] be2net: Fix ethtool get drvinfo

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Date:	Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:22:11 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@...lex.com>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Kalesh AP <kalesh.purayil@...lex.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 2/4] be2net: Fix ethtool get drvinfo

On Tue, 2013-04-30 at 17:07 +0530, Somnath Kotur wrote:
> From: Kalesh AP <kalesh.purayil@...lex.com>
> 
> Cannot issue any other mailbox command while firmware download is in progress.
> The get_drvinfo ethtool hook can be invoked without acquiring any rtnl_lock.
[...]

Although I documented that as being possible in ethtool.h, that was only
because of one particular caller that has since been removed (commit
e52ac3398c3d 'net: Use device model to get driver name in
skb_gso_segment()').  So unless I missed another case, you could change
the documentation.

Ben.

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