Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753349AbYAQPQl (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:16:41 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751294AbYAQPQe (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:16:34 -0500 Received: from iolanthe.rowland.org ([192.131.102.54]:44593 "HELO iolanthe.rowland.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750941AbYAQPQd (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:16:33 -0500 Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:16:30 -0500 (EST) From: Alan Stern X-X-Sender: stern@iolanthe.rowland.org To: Dave Young cc: Jarek Poplawski , Greg KH , , , Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/7] driver-core : convert semaphore to mutex in struct class In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 827 Lines: 22 On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Dave Young wrote: > > Your meaning isn't clear. Do you mean that your patch doesn't generate > > any lockdep warnings at all? Or do you mean that it generates a single > > lockdep warning at boot time and then no more warnings afterward? > > I means the latter one. That's very bad. For each type of violation, lockdep only gives one error message. So the fact that you get one message at boot time and then no more doesn't mean the code is almost right -- it probably means the code has lots of errors and you're seeing only the first one. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/