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Commit 269a6b5f authored by Russell King's avatar Russell King Committed by David S. Miller
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net: phylink: update documentation on create and destroy 



Update the documentation on phylink's create and destroy functions to
explicitly state that the rtnl lock must not be held while calling
these.

Signed-off-by: default avatarRussell King <rmk+kernel@armlinux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent a0783cd0

drivers/net/phy/phylink.c

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@@ -601,6 +601,8 @@ static int phylink_register_sfp(struct phylink *pl, 
 * Create a new phylink instance, and parse the link parameters found in @np.

 * This will parse in-band modes, fixed-link or SFP configuration.

 *

 * Note: the rtnl lock must not be held when calling this function.

 *

 * Returns a pointer to a &struct phylink, or an error-pointer value. Users

 * must use IS_ERR() to check for errors from this function.

 */
@@ -678,6 +680,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(phylink_create); 
 *

 * Destroy a phylink instance. Any PHY that has been attached must have been

 * cleaned up via phylink_disconnect_phy() prior to calling this function.

 *

 * Note: the rtnl lock must not be held when calling this function.

 */

void phylink_destroy(struct phylink *pl)

{