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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3 0/6] hid: Introduce device groups
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> > Ah, yes. I take it you are talking about tty/vt/keyboard.c. So some
> > random keypress during shutdown triggers the event, which eventually
> > reaches input_pass_event(). From there on, the trace stays in the
> > mentioned driver. First kbd_event() gets called, which takes the lock
> > and goes on to, in turn, call kbd_keycode(), k_handler[2]() ==
> > k_spec(), fn_handler[9]() == fn_hold(), which goes on to call
> > stop_tty(). This function comes back to the driver, via con_stop(), as
> > vt_kbd_con_stop(), which in turn takes the same lock. So unless the
> > teardown of something in hid affects the choices made in the tty
> > driver, it appears this is a different problem. Or?
>
> I just came to the same conclusion a few minutes ago ... i.e. this is
> likely unrelated to the patchset and I just triggered it by pure
> coincidence on the patched kernel.
>
> I will keep looking into it a little bit more. Dmitry, any immediate ideas
> by any chance?

Okay, someone was able to get lockdep complain about this and Alan is
apparently on it already:

https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/5/1/69

So nothing to be worried about.

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs


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