Re: [PATCH v6 3/4] RDMA/Core: add RDMA_NLDEV_CMD_NEWLINK/DELLINK support

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On 12/7/2018 1:25 PM, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> I don't like messing with module refcount to solve a locking problem..
> Here something like this compile-tested thing..
>
> Instead of implementing dellink as a function call implement it as a
> flag 'ALLOW_USER_UNREGISTER'. The core code simply calls
> ib_unregister_device_and_put() upon dellink.
>
Why don't we just mandate that if a driver uses rdma_link_ops, then it
must support the core doing the ib_unregister_device_and_put() on a
DELLINK nlmsg?

Steve.





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