Subject: Re: Printing the driver name as part of the netdev watchdog message

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 10:05:56 -0700

On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 21:53:24 -0400
Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]> wrote:

> David Miller wrote:
> > From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
> > Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2008 18:08:42 -0700
> > 
> >> For consistency each call through ethtool_ops should
> >> be holding rtnl mutex. And since dev_watchdog is a timer routine,
> >> it is not safe to acquire a mutex there.
> > 
> > I think "get driver info", which does nothing but copy strings out of
> > the driver software state, is a safe exception to these strict locking
> > rules.
> > 
> > Don't you think? :-)
> 
> Indeed...
> 

It is save exception, but documentation needed?