linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] igc: Remove redundant runtime resume for ethtool ops

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Message-ID: <20240326143616.GA403975@kernel.org>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 14:36:16 +0000
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Bjorn Helgaas <helgaas@...nel.org>
Cc: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>,
	Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>,
	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>,
	Zheng Yan <zheng.z.yan@...el.com>,
	Sasha Neftin <sasha.neftin@...el.com>,
	"Rafael J . Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@...el.com>,
	intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] igc: Remove redundant runtime resume for ethtool ops

On Mon, Mar 25, 2024 at 05:29:51PM -0500, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> From: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>
> 
> 8c5ad0dae93c ("igc: Add ethtool support") added ethtool_ops.begin() and
> .complete(), which used pm_runtime_get_sync() to resume suspended devices
> before any ethtool_ops callback and allow suspend after it completed.
> 
> Subsequently, f32a21376573 ("ethtool: runtime-resume netdev parent before
> ethtool ioctl ops") added pm_runtime_get_sync() in the dev_ethtool() path,
> so the device is resumed before any ethtool_ops callback even if the driver
> didn't supply a .begin() callback.
> 
> Remove the .begin() and .complete() callbacks, which are now redundant
> because dev_ethtool() already resumes the device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@...gle.com>

Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>