Jiri Pirko
ae3bbc04d4
Lifetime of some of the devlink objects, like regions, is currently forced to be different for devlink instance and devlink port instance (per-port regions). The reason is that for devlink ports, the internal structures initialization happens only after devlink_port_register() is called. To resolve this inconsistency, introduce new set of helpers to allow driver to initialize devlink pointer and region list before devlink_register() is called. That allows port regions to be created before devlink port registration and destroyed after devlink port unregistration. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.