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* [PATCH net] devlink: Fix accidental merge error in nested devlink docs
@ 2026-10-11  9:07 Tariq Toukan
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From: Tariq Toukan @ 2026-10-11  9:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Andrew Lunn, David S. Miller, Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski,
	netdev, Paolo Abeni
  Cc: Carolina Jubran, Cosmin Ratiu, Gal Pressman, Jiri Pirko,
	Jonathan Corbet, linux-doc, open list, Randy Dunlap, Shuah Khan,
	Simon Horman, Tariq Toukan

From: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com>

The referenced "Fixes" commit accidentally reverted a correction
introduced in commit [1].
Revert that mistake.

[1] commit e504cf18ef47 ("docs: net: fix minor issues with devlink
docs")
Fixes: 3bf4c5970ca8 ("devlink: Update nested instance locking comment")
Signed-off-by: Cosmin Ratiu <cratiu@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>
---
 Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst b/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst
index d4a83fdcff7f..64e498e4ff16 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/devlink/index.rst
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ sure to respect following rules:
    lock of both nested and parent instances at the same time, devlink
    instance lock of the nested instance should be taken first, only then
    instance lock of the parent instance could be taken.
- - Driver should use object-specific helpers to setup the
-   nested relationship:
+ - Driver should use object-specific helpers to setup the nested relationship
+   before registering the nested devlink instance:
 
    - ``devl_nested_devlink_set()`` - called to setup devlink -> nested
      devlink relationship (could be used for multiple nested instances).

base-commit: af32da41b0327b9c6a37856ba82b6760d6c8d10e
-- 
2.44.0


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