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From: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@sandisk.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] lpfc: Add lockdep assertions
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2015 09:59:32 +0100
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On 12/17/2015 09:49 AM, Johannes Thumshirn wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 03:22:50PM -0800, James Smart wrote:
>> Johannes,
>>
>> Thank you for the time and effort on the patch. At this time, as it doesn't
>> functionally change anything, I did not include the patch. I will consider
>> it if we see additional issues it can help resolve.
>
> As I already said in the patch mail, I'm not sure if it is of intereset for
> upstream, but can actually be quite handy to find something if it goes wrong.

I'd like to see this patch being merged upstream. lockdep_assert_held() 
statements are checked at runtime when using a debug kernel, which is 
not the case for comments that document locking conventions.

Thanks,

Bart.