Merge branch 'devlink-cleanup-for-delay-event'

Leon Romanovsky says:

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Devlink cleanup for delay event series

Jakub's request to make sure that devlink events are delayed and not
printed till they fully accessible [1] requires us to implement delayed
event notification system in the devlink.

In order to do it, I moved some of my patches (xarray e.t.c) from the future
series to be before "Move devlink_register to be near devlink_reload_enable" [2].

That allows us to rely on DEVLINK_REGISTERED xarray mark to decide if to print
event or not.

Other patches are simple cleanup which is needed anyway.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20210811071817.4af5ab34@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com
[2] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/cover.1628599239.git.leonro@nvidia.com

Next in the queue:
 * Delay event series
 * Move devlink_register to be near devlink_reload_enable"
 * Extension of devlink_ops to be set dynamically
 * devlink_reload_* delete
 * Devlink locks rework to user xarray and reference counting
 * ????
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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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