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DateMon, 10 Jul 2006 08:59:52 +0200
FromIngo Molnar <>
SubjectRe: auro deadlock
* David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:

> The lockdep fixes are starting to cause us to go in and start adding 
> hard IRQ protection to many socket layer objects and I want this 
> thinking to end quickly :)

In earlier lockdep versions we had many such hacks, but in the current 
upstream kernel we've only got one such case so far: one netlink 
function, where the alternative was to rewrite softmac. I fixed all the 
earlier hacks to be proper annotations - and the plan is to keep things 
clean in the future too :-)

	Ingo
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