Re: [patch net 2/2] mlxsw: spectrum: Don't sleep during ndo_get_phys_port_name()

Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 10:50:16AM CEST, Yuval.Mintz@qlogic.com wrote:

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When rtnl_fill_ifinfo() is called for a certain netdevice it queries its various
parameters such as switch id and physical port name. The function might get
called in an atomic context, which means the underlying driver must not sleep

Is Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt a deprecated file?
If not, perhaps we should update such information there; Otherwise its trial
and  error for everyone.

Looks like Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt needs a lot of work
to make it up to date. Would perhaps make sense to move this info
directly to the initial comment of struct net_device_ops.