eth: bnxt: remove most dependencies on RTNL
authorStanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Wed, 5 Mar 2025 16:37:32 +0000 (08:37 -0800)
committerJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Thu, 6 Mar 2025 20:59:45 +0000 (12:59 -0800)
commit004b5008016a2cc37103bf8d9968573771cd311f
treee039d67c4968f7dd87f98fd687b0ac7b5e1ca145
parentcc34acd577f1a6ed805106bfcc9a262837dbd0da
eth: bnxt: remove most dependencies on RTNL

Only devlink and sriov paths are grabbing rtnl explicitly. The rest is
covered by netdev instance lock which the core now grabs, so there is
no need to manage rtnl in most places anymore.

On the core side we can now try to drop rtnl in some places
(do_setlink for example) for the drivers that signal non-rtnl
mode (TBD).

Boot-tested and with `ethtool -L eth1 combined 24` to trigger reset.

Cc: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250305163732.2766420-15-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_devlink.c
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_sriov.c
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_ulp.c
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_vfr.c
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt_xdp.c
include/linux/netdevice.h