alx: use fine-grained locking instead of RTNL
In the alx driver, all locking depended on the RTNL, but that causes issues with ipconfig ("ip=..." command line) because that waits for the netdev to have a carrier while holding the RTNL, but the alx workers etc. require RTNL, so the carrier won't be set until the RTNL is dropped and can be acquired by alx workers. This causes long delays at boot, as reported by Nikolai Zhubr. Really the only sensible thing to do here is to not use the RTNL for everything, but instead have fine-grained locking for just the driver. Do that, it's not that hard. Reported-by: Nikolai Zhubr <zhubr.2@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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