From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Neil Armstrong <narmstrong@baylibre.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>,
vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com,
Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>,
Pavel Nakonechny <pavel.nakonechny@skitlab.ru>,
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
nbd@openwrt.org, sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: mv88e6060: Fix false positive lockdep splat
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 14:06:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151022120607.GD1985@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56289967.6010909@baylibre.com>
> Well, mdio-mux also calls switch_fn inside the mdio_lock, clean refactoring
> would introduce a separate lock and call the nested variants.
> Is that ok ? Can someone test mdio-mux if I make the change ?
Hi Neil
I would not touch mdio-mux. As you said, it does more than lock, read,
unlock. It is not something sufficiently generic to place into shared
code.
Andrew
prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-22 12:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-21 15:37 [PATCH] net: dsa: mv88e6060: Fix false positive lockdep splat Neil Armstrong
2015-10-21 16:14 ` Andrew Lunn
2015-10-22 7:33 ` Neil Armstrong
2015-10-22 8:08 ` Neil Armstrong
2015-10-22 8:08 ` Neil Armstrong
2015-10-22 12:06 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
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