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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, matthew@wil.cx, kay.sievers@vrfy.org,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3][-mm] reclassify the sg_sysfs_class mutex
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 10:22:59 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080520172259.GB11666@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080520095851.GB3201@darkstar.te-china.tietoenator.com>

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:58:51PM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> [Please first apply the patch 1/3 before this]
> 
> To please lockdep here we use class_reclassify to change
> the lock class of sg_sysfs_class

Are you suggesting we do this for every struct class in the kernel?  If
so, why not just do it in the class core, instead of having to modify
every single caller?

I don't think the overall idea of this patch set is acceptable anyway :(

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-20 17:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-20  9:58 [PATCH 2/3][-mm] reclassify the sg_sysfs_class mutex Dave Young
2008-05-20 17:22 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-05-21  1:25   ` Dave Young
2008-05-21  4:37     ` Greg KH

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