net: document NETDEV_UNREGISTER unlocked rationale

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The lock-state table marks UNREGISTER as unlocked without saying
why. Add a short note that many handlers release the lowers via
dev_close().

Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260702224150.3730033-7-sdf@fomichev.me
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>

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Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst

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