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.