[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH net-next] devlink: Set device as early as possible

patchwork-bot+netdevbpf at kernel.org patchwork-bot+netdevbpf at kernel.org
Mon Aug 9 09:30:05 UTC 2021


Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net-next.git (refs/heads/master):

On Sun,  8 Aug 2021 21:57:43 +0300 you wrote:
> From: Leon Romanovsky <leonro at nvidia.com>
> 
> All kernel devlink implementations call to devlink_alloc() during
> initialization routine for specific device which is used later as
> a parent device for devlink_register().
> 
> Such late device assignment causes to the situation which requires us to
> call to device_register() before setting other parameters, but that call
> opens devlink to the world and makes accessible for the netlink users.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net-next] devlink: Set device as early as possible
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net-next/c/919d13a7e455

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