On Wed, 6 Oct 2021 06:37:44 +0300 Leon Romanovsky wrote: > Let's chose random kernel version (v5.11) > https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v5.11/source/net/core/devlink.c#L10245 > as you can see, it doesn't hold ANY driver core locks, Nope, that is not what I see. > so it can be called in any time during driver .probe() or .remove(). Having a callback invoked after registering to a subsystem (which used to be the case for devlink before the changes) is _normal_. You keep talking about .probe() like it's some magic period of complete quiescence. > Drivers that have implemented ops.flash_update() have no idea about that. I bet. I don't think this discussion is going anywhere, count me out.
