On Tue, Jun 02, 2026 at 06:28 PM -07, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

Jakub suggests renaming the existing assert to match
the netdev_lock_ops_compat() semantics.

We want netdev_assert_locked_ops() to mean - if the driver
is ops locked - check that it's holding the device lock.

The existing helper check for either ops lock or rtnl_lock,
which is the locking behavior of netdev_lock_ops_compat().

The reason for naming divergence is likely that
netdev_ops_assert_locked() predated the _compat() helpers.

Suggested-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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v2:
 - new patch
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Reviewed-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jakub@cloudflare.com>