Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753344Ab0BEPn0 (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:43:26 -0500 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:44120 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750859Ab0BEPnZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 5 Feb 2010 10:43:25 -0500 Subject: Re: [Patch 0/2] sysfs: fix s_active lockdep warning From: Peter Zijlstra To: Alan Stern Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" , Greg KH , Thomas Gleixner , Cong Wang , Kernel development list , Tejun Heo , Miles Lane , Heiko Carstens , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Larry Finger , Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:41:57 +0100 Message-ID: <1265384517.30057.50.camel@laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 643 Lines: 18 On Fri, 2010-02-05 at 10:30 -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > Right, so this device stuff is much more complicated than I was led to > > believe ;-) > > Haven't I told you all along that tree-structured locking is > complicated? :-) Well, regular tree's aren't all that complicated, but multiple inter-locking trees is a whole different story indeed. -- 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/