Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1] dev: remove netdev_lock() and netdev_lock_ops() in register_netdevice().

From: Stanislav Fomichev <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 9 Mar 2025 14:41:29 -0700

On 03/08, Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
> On 03/08, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > On Sun, 9 Mar 2025 05:37:18 +0900 Kohei Enju wrote:
> > > Both netdev_lock() and netdev_lock_ops() are called before
> > > list_netdevice() in register_netdevice().
> > > No other context can access the struct net_device, so we don't need these
> > > locks in this context.
> 
> That's technically true, but it will set off a bunch of lockdep
> warnings :-(
Let me drop it for now from the nipa because it does complain about it:
https://netdev-3.bots.linux.dev/vmksft-net-dbg/results/24641/67-nl-netdev-py/stderr

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