net: dummy: do not acquire RTNL for too long

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Instead of holding RTNL for an arbitrary amount of time,
call register_netdev() for each dummy device created
at module loading time.

Tested:

modprobe dummy numdummies=10000

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260427091016.737015-1-edumazet@google.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>

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Eric Dumazet 2026-04-27 09:10:16 +00:00 • committed by Jakub Kicinski

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