From: David Miller <da...@davemloft.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:33:11 -0700 (PDT)

> Calling a NIC driver open function from a context holding a spinlock
> is very much the real problem, so many operations have to sleep and
> in face that ->ndo_open() method is defined as being allowed to sleep
> and that's why the core networking never invokes it with spinlocks
                                                      ^^^^

I mean "without" of course. :-)

> held.

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