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Message-ID: <Y5CU81h+NDjUVVSJ@nanopsycho>
Date:   Wed, 7 Dec 2022 14:28:19 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net, pabeni@...hat.com,
        edumazet@...gle.com, michael.chan@...adcom.com,
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        jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com,
        tchornyi@...vell.com, tariqt@...dia.com, saeedm@...dia.com,
        leon@...nel.org, idosch@...dia.com, petrm@...dia.com,
        vladimir.oltean@....com, claudiu.manoil@....com,
        alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com, simon.horman@...igine.com,
        shannon.nelson@....com, brett.creeley@....com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next 0/8] devlink: make sure devlink port
 registers/unregisters only for registered instance

Tue, Dec 06, 2022 at 09:12:26PM CET, kuba@...nel.org wrote:
>On Tue, 6 Dec 2022 08:44:16 +0100 Jiri Pirko wrote:
>>> I didn't reply because I don't have much to add beyond what 
>>> I've already said too many times. I prefer to move to my
>>> initial full refcounting / full locking design. I haven't posted 
>>> any patches because I figured it's too low priority and too risky
>>> to be doing right before the merge window.  
>> 
>> I'm missing how what you describe is relevant to this patchset and to
>> the issue it is trying to solve :/ 
>> 
>>> I agree that reordering is a good idea but not as a fix, and hopefully  
>> 
>> I don't see other way to fix the netdev/devlink events ordering problem
>> I described above. Do you?
>
>Just hold off with your patches until I post mine. Which as I said will
>be during/after the merge window. I've been explaining this for a year now.

Sure, no problem.

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