From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Corbet Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] serial: doc: .break_ctl() may sleep Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 16:01:04 -0600 Message-ID: <20160415160104.6aed0770@lwn.net> References: <1460624891-8389-1-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be> <1460624891-8389-5-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1460624891-8389-5-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be> Sender: linux-doc-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Geert Uytterhoeven Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Jiri Slaby , Peter Hurley , Russell King , linux-serial@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-serial@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 14 Apr 2016 11:08:11 +0200 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > As mutex_lock() must not be called with interrupts disabled, > .break_ctl() may sleep. So I've applied the first three to the docs tree, but this one stopped me. The changelog doesn't really say why the patch is correct; what we really need to know is that break_ctl() won't be called in atomic context. I'm assuming that's the case, but if it truly is, can I get a version with a changelog saying that? Thanks, jon