Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 20 May 2008 21:37:20 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3][-mm] reclassify the sg_sysfs_class mutex |
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On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 09:25:58AM +0800, Dave Young wrote: > 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 do not know, there might be in the future.
thanks,
greg k-h
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