Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 21 May 2008 09:25:58 +0800 | From | "Dave Young" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3][-mm] reclassify the sg_sysfs_class mutex |
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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 1:22 AM, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 05:58:51PM +0800, Dave Young wrote: >> [Please first apply the patch 1/3 before this] >> >> To please lockdep here we use class_reclassify to change >> the lock class of sg_sysfs_class > > Are you suggesting we do this for every struct class in the kernel? If > so, why not just do it in the class core, instead of having to modify > every single caller?
I don't think it necessary to do this for every class, because only class_interface_* calls could cause the issue, and the class_interface_* are only used by pcmcia & scsi, do you think there will be other users of them?
> > I don't think the overall idea of this patch set is acceptable anyway :( > > thanks, > > greg k-h >
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