Re: [PATCH] gpio: pca953x: add a comment explaining the need for a lockdep subclass

Wolfram Sang
2016-09-29T06:07:17Z

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On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 12:00:30PM +0200, Wolfram Sang wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:54:15AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> > This is a follow-up to commit 559b46990e76 ("gpio: pca953x: fix an
> > incorrect lockdep warning"). The reason for calling
> > lockdep_set_subclass() in pca953x_probe() is not explained in
> > the code.
> >
> > Add a comment describing the problem, partial solution and required
> > future extensions.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>
>
> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@the-dreams.de>
>
> Linus, because of dependencies, I should probably pick it up?

Linus, ping!