[PATCH net-next 3/3] mlxsw: Tell the core to use the netdev instance lock
From: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Date: 2026-07-08 12:42:02
Subsystem:
mellanox ethernet switch drivers, networking drivers, the rest · Maintainers:
Ido Schimmel, Petr Machata, Andrew Lunn, "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds
After the previous changes the driver is now ready to have its net device and ethtool operations invoked with the netdev instance lock held. Tell the core about it by setting request_ops_lock to true. Reviewed-by: Danielle Ratson <redacted> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c
index 3ee1272dcf0e..815e8d8e3185 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlxsw/spectrum.c@@ -1552,6 +1552,7 @@ static int mlxsw_sp_port_create(struct mlxsw_sp *mlxsw_sp, u16 local_port, dev->vlan_features |= NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM; dev->lltx = true; dev->netns_immutable = true; + dev->request_ops_lock = true; dev->min_mtu = ETH_MIN_MTU; dev->max_mtu = MLXSW_PORT_MAX_MTU - MLXSW_PORT_ETH_FRAME_HDR;
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2.54.0