netdev - Re: [PATCH iwl-net v1 0/4] fix locking issue

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Message-ID: <405a6c43-de6b-47a8-ab55-de6cf286196e@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 21:55:15 +0100
From: Przemek Kitszel <przemyslaw.kitszel@...el.com>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
CC: "Singh, Krishneil K" <krishneil.k.singh@...el.com>,
	"intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org" <intel-wired-lan@...ts.osuosl.org>, "Emil
 Tantilov" <emil.s.tantilov@...el.com>, "netdev@...r.kernel.org"
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Ahmed Zaki <ahmed.zaki@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH iwl-net v1 0/4] fix locking issue

On 1/27/25 18:42, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Jan 2025 09:11:41 +0100 Przemek Kitszel wrote:
>> @netdev
>> I would like to consider adding "in reset" state for the netdev,
>> to prevent such behavior in more civilized way though.
> 
> Can you provide more context? We already have netif_device_detach()
> 

getting -ENODEV on the device/interface that will soon be up again feels
unoptimal, and with all the risks of "poor driver undoing user config"
during the disablement I would like to see better.

perhaps with Emil's patch there will be also more context