Commit 77a70f9c authored by Jiri Pirko's avatar Jiri Pirko Committed by Jakub Kicinski

Documentation: devlink: fix the locking section

As all callbacks are converted now, fix the text reflecting that change.
Suggested-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220823070213.1008956-1-jiri@resnulli.usSigned-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
parent c21e1bf4
......@@ -13,10 +13,8 @@ new APIs prefixed by ``devl_*``. The older APIs handle all the locking
in devlink core, but don't allow registration of most sub-objects once
the main devlink object is itself registered. The newer ``devl_*`` APIs assume
the devlink instance lock is already held. Drivers can take the instance
lock by calling ``devl_lock()``. It is also held in most of the callbacks.
Eventually all callbacks will be invoked under the devlink instance lock,
refer to the use of the ``DEVLINK_NL_FLAG_NO_LOCK`` flag in devlink core
to find out which callbacks are not converted, yet.
lock by calling ``devl_lock()``. It is also held all callbacks of devlink
netlink commands.
Drivers are encouraged to use the devlink instance lock for their own needs.
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