Re: lockdep: fix smc91x

From: Russell King
Date: Wed Aug 09 2006 - 19:33:00 EST


On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 11:45:28PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Russell King wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >When booting using root-nfs, I'm seeing (independently) two lockdep dumps
> >in the smc91x driver. The patch below fixes both. Both dumps look like
> >real locking issues.
> >
> >Nico - please review and ack if you think the patch is correct.
>
> Was this ever ACK'd?

Not afaik.

> I would prefer spin_lock_irqsave(), but that's just a quibble. I would
> be OK with applying this.

Yes, though I did review all call paths to make sure it was safe first.

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Russell King
Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
maintainer of: 2.6 Serial core
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