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There's not really a benefit here in taking the RTNL lock. The task handler does exception handling only, so we're in trouble anyway when we come here, and there's no need to protect against e.g. a parallel ethtool call. A benefit of removing the RTNL lock here is that we now can synchronously cancel the workqueue from a context holding the RTNL mutex. Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.