From: "Li, Zhen-Hua" <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:45:52 +0800

> From: "Li, Zhen-Hua" <[email protected]>
> 
> In benet driver, netif_device_detach and netif_device_attach should be
> called between rtnl_lock and rtnl_unlock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Li, Zhen-Hua <[email protected]>

This absolutely does not look like a driver specific issue, therefore
I do not want you to make such locking context adjustments only in
your driver.

Do it somewhere generic so that every driver gets the fix, not just
your driver.
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