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Jason Gunthorpe authored
This mutex was introduced to deal with the deadlock formed by calling
unregister_netdev from within the sysfs callback of a netdev.

Now that we have priv_destructor and needs_free_netdev we can switch
to the more targeted solution of running the unregister from a
work queue. This avoids the deadlock and gets rid of the mutex.

The next patch in the series needs this mutex eliminated to create
atomicity of unregisteration.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJason Gunthorpe <jgg@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLeon Romanovsky <leonro@mellanox.com>
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