Hi!
> Add support for HW offloading of the netdev trigger.
>
> We need to change spinlock to mutex, because if spinlock is used, the
> trigger_offload() method cannot sleep, which can happen for ethernet
> PHYs.
Is that bugfix or just needed for offloading? Should be separate patch
in any case.
On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 12:44:32 +0100
Marek Behún wrote:
> + if (!led_trigger_offload(led_cdev))
> + return;
> +
The offload method has to read the settings, so this code (better: the
whole set_baseline_state function) has to be always called with the
mutex locked. (I am talking abo
Add support for HW offloading of the netdev trigger.
We need to change spinlock to mutex, because if spinlock is used, the
trigger_offload() method cannot sleep, which can happen for ethernet
PHYs.
We can change the spinlock to mutex because, according to Jacek:
register_netdevice_notifier() re
