This comment is no longer true due to a couple of mailbox locking
refactors, and we now don't actually do any rtnl protected operations
directly in the mailbox path. Remove this comment as it is factually
incorrect and confusing.
Signed-off-by: Jacob Keller <jacob.e.keller@intel.com>
Tested-by: Krishneil Singh <krishneil.k.singh@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
* @interface: board private structure
*
* This function will process both the upstream and downstream mailboxes.
- * It is necessary for us to hold the rtnl_lock while doing this as the
- * mailbox accesses are protected by this lock.
**/
static void fm10k_mbx_subtask(struct fm10k_intfc *interface)
{
interface = container_of(work, struct fm10k_intfc, service_task);
- /* tasks always capable of running, but must be rtnl protected */
+ /* tasks run even when interface is down */
fm10k_mbx_subtask(interface);
fm10k_detach_subtask(interface);
fm10k_reset_subtask(interface);