netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] devlink: Allow parameter registration/unregistration during runtime

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Date:   Thu, 10 Mar 2022 22:28:05 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Leon Romanovsky <leonro@...dia.com>
Cc:     Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Sridhar Samudrala" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <sudheer.mogilappagari@...el.com>,
        <amritha.nambiar@...el.com>, <jiri@...dia.com>,
        Bharathi Sreenivas <bharathi.sreenivas@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] devlink: Allow parameter
 registration/unregistration during runtime

On Fri, 11 Mar 2022 08:21:01 +0200 Leon Romanovsky wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure what you're doing is broken. You should probably wait
> > until my patches to allow explicit devlink locking are merged and build
> > on top of that.  
> 
> Yes, it is broken, but I don't see how your devlink locking series will
> help here. IMHO, devlink_params_register() should not be dynamic [1]. 

Quite possible, I can't think of an in-tree use case that may require
adding and removing params.