Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:10:24 -0800
From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>, Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>,
       Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>,
       Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>,
       Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
       Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 0/2] sysfs: fix s_active lockdep warning
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On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 06:57:28PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 06:22 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > Heh, this whole mess is the very reason we didn't add lockdep support to
> > the driver core.  Nested devices that all look alike from the driver
> > core, are really different objects and the locking lifetimes are
> > separate, but lockdep can't see that. 
> 
> And here I through Alan Stern had a handle on making the driver core
> play nice.

It's not the driver core that is the issue here, it's that lockdep can't
handle the tree structure of devices that is represented in the kernel.

I don't think it is a driver core problem, but rather, a lockdep issue.

thanks,

greg k-h
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