Re: [PATCH v5 01/14] net: ionic: Create an auxiliary device for rdma driver

From: Markus Elfring
Date: Sat Aug 16 2025 - 05:26:20 EST



> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/pensando/ionic/ionic_aux.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,80 @@

> +void ionic_auxbus_unregister(struct ionic_lif *lif)
> +{
> + mutex_lock(&lif->adev_lock);
> + if (!lif->ionic_adev)

> +out:
> + mutex_unlock(&lif->adev_lock);
> +}


Under which circumstances would you become interested to apply a call
like “scoped_guard(mutex, &lif->adev_lock)”?
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.16/source/include/linux/mutex.h#L225

Regards,
Markus