Commit 77a70f9c authored by Jiri Pirko's avatar Jiri Pirko Committed by Jakub Kicinski
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Documentation: devlink: fix the locking section 



As all callbacks are converted now, fix the text reflecting that change.

Suggested-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220823070213.1008956-1-jiri@resnulli.us


Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent c21e1bf4

Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst

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@@ -13,10 +13,8 @@ new APIs prefixed by ``devl_*``. The older APIs handle all the locking 
in devlink core, but don't allow registration of most sub-objects once

the main devlink object is itself registered. The newer ``devl_*`` APIs assume

the devlink instance lock is already held. Drivers can take the instance

lock by calling ``devl_lock()``. It is also held in most of the callbacks.

Eventually all callbacks will be invoked under the devlink instance lock,

refer to the use of the ``DEVLINK_NL_FLAG_NO_LOCK`` flag in devlink core

to find out which callbacks are not converted, yet.

lock by calling ``devl_lock()``. It is also held all callbacks of devlink

netlink commands.



Drivers are encouraged to use the devlink instance lock for their own needs.