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There's no explanation in the original commit of why that was done, but presumably flashing takes a long time and holding RTNL for so long blocks other interactions with the netdev layer. However, the stack is moving towards netdev instance locking and dropping and reacquiring RTNL in the context of flashing introduces locking ordering issues: RTNL must be acquired before the netdev instance lock and released after it. This patch therefore takes the simpler approach by no longer dropping and reacquiring the RTNL, as soon RTNL for ethtool will be removed, leaving only the instance lock to protect against races. Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Carolina Jubran <cjubran@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/1747829342-1018757-5-git-send-email-tariqt@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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