Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] leds: trigger: netdev: fix RTNL handling to prevent potential deadlock

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2023 19:21:09 -0800

On Mon, 4 Dec 2023 14:48:08 -0800 Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2023 11:23:22 +0100 Heiner Kallweit wrote:
> > When working on LED support for r8169 I got the following lockdep
> > warning. Easiest way to prevent this scenario seems to be to take
> > the RTNL lock before the trigger_data lock in set_device_name().  
> 
> Pavel/Lee, would you like to handle this patch?
> Or should we ship it to Linus on Thu?

Better safe than step on someone's toes, so I'll drop this version
from the netdev PW.