Re: [ 072/143] tipc: fix lockdep warning during bearer initialization

Jon Maloy
2014-05-12T17:20:11Z

On 05/12/2014 01:12 PM, Willy Tarreau wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 04:41:00PM +0000, Jon Maloy wrote:
>> Sorry, I should have mentioned that it is still only in net-next.
>> It is pretty recent.
>
> OK indeed, got it here for reference :
>
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git/commit/?id=7216cd949c9bd56
>
> But anyway, what is mentionned in this commit is a number of changes that
> happened between 2.6.32 and 3.15, so I hardly see how the tipc_net_lock
> is obsolete in 2.6.32 if it does not have all these changes. I have counted
> 489 commits between 2.6.32 and 3.15-rc5 touching net/tipc, so surely we
> cannot count on what we have to get rid of this lock.
>
> Am I missing anything ?

Ok. I missed the 2.6.32 part. I withdraw my objection.

///jon

>
> Thanks,
> Willy
>