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From: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Arjan Van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Subject: Re: lockdep: fix smc91x
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 00:29:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060809232912.GA29587@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44D95A58.6070706@garzik.org>

On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:45:28PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Russell King wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >When booting using root-nfs, I'm seeing (independently) two lockdep dumps
> >in the smc91x driver.  The patch below fixes both.  Both dumps look like
> >real locking issues.
> >
> >Nico - please review and ack if you think the patch is correct.
> 
> Was this ever ACK'd?

Not afaik.

> I would prefer spin_lock_irqsave(), but that's just a quibble.  I would 
> be OK with applying this.

Yes, though I did review all call paths to make sure it was safe first.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
 maintainer of:  2.6 Serial core

      reply	other threads:[~2006-08-09 23:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-27 14:44 lockdep: fix smc91x Russell King
2006-08-09  3:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-08-09 23:29   ` Russell King [this message]

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