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Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:05:04 -0700
From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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On Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:29:25 +0300 Mark Bloch wrote:
> I think the explicit helper is the cleanest option here, without any
> workqueue fallback inside devlink. It avoids depending on devl_register()
> ordering, and makes the support explicit per driver.
> 
> Does that sound like an acceptable direction?

I'd much rather have the workqueue with the purely theoretical race
with user space than a bunch of drivers that don't act on the cmdline
params.