Commit 269a6b5f authored by Russell King's avatar Russell King Committed by David S. Miller

net: phylink: update documentation on create and destroy

Update the documentation on phylink's create and destroy functions to
explicitly state that the rtnl lock must not be held while calling
these.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent a0783cd0
......@@ -601,6 +601,8 @@ static int phylink_register_sfp(struct phylink *pl,
* Create a new phylink instance, and parse the link parameters found in @np.
* This will parse in-band modes, fixed-link or SFP configuration.
*
* Note: the rtnl lock must not be held when calling this function.
*
* Returns a pointer to a &struct phylink, or an error-pointer value. Users
* must use IS_ERR() to check for errors from this function.
*/
......@@ -678,6 +680,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(phylink_create);
*
* Destroy a phylink instance. Any PHY that has been attached must have been
* cleaned up via phylink_disconnect_phy() prior to calling this function.
*
* Note: the rtnl lock must not be held when calling this function.
*/
void phylink_destroy(struct phylink *pl)
{
......
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