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    IB/ipoib: Get rid of the sysfs_mutex · ee190ab7
    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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