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Message-ID: <20240209124536.75599e91@kernel.org>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2024 12:45:36 -0800
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To: Stanislaw Gruszka <stanislaw.gruszka@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric
 Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, Johannes
 Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, Tony Nguyen <anthony.l.nguyen@...el.com>,
 Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>, Sasha Neftin
 <sasha.neftin@...el.com>, Dima Ruinskiy <dima.ruinskiy@...el.com>, Heiner
 Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>, "Rafael J . Wysocki " <rafael@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: avoid net core runtime resume for most drivers

On Wed,  7 Feb 2024 10:51:11 +0100 Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> Introducing runtime resume before ndo_open and ethtool ops by commits:
> 
> d43c65b05b84 ("ethtool: runtime-resume netdev parent in ethnl_ops_begin")
> bd869245a3dc ("net: core: try to runtime-resume detached device in __dev_open")

We should revisit whether core should try to help drivers with PM
or not once the Intel drivers are fixed. Taking the global networking
lock from device resume routine is inexcusable. I really don't want to
make precedents for adjusting the core because driver code is poor
quality :(

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