netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/3] wil6210: get rid of begin() and complete() ethtool

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Message-ID: <e491e623-dd95-b453-4656-c18f6526562c@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 6 Jan 2020 10:30:47 -0800
From:   Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
To:     Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Maya Erez <merez@...eaurora.org>,
        Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, wil6210@....qualcomm.com,
        Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/3] wil6210: get rid of begin() and
 complete() ethtool_ops

On 1/5/20 10:39 PM, Michal Kubecek wrote:
> The wil6210 driver locks a mutex in begin() ethtool_ops callback and
> unlocks it in complete() so that all ethtool requests are serialized. This
> is not going to work correctly with netlink interface; e.g. when ioctl
> triggers a netlink notification, netlink code would call begin() again
> while the mutex taken by ioctl code is still held by the same task.
> 
> Let's get rid of the begin() and complete() callbacks and move the mutex
> locking into the remaining ethtool_ops handlers except get_drvinfo which
> only copies strings that are not changing so that there is no need for
> serialization.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
-- 
Florian