netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH v4 04/10] netdev-genl: Add netlink framework functions for queue

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Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:44:05 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: "Nambiar, Amritha" <amritha.nambiar@...el.com>
Cc: <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v4 04/10] netdev-genl: Add netlink framework
 functions for queue

On Thu, 12 Oct 2023 17:36:36 -0700 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> we can't hold the lock in pre :(

To be clear - I meant to say that for dumps we can't hold the lock
across all the callbacks, for do it would technically be fine.
But I don't think that it's better.