Re: [PATCH 1/8] PM / Sleep: Initialize wakeup source locks in wakeup_source_add()

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday, February 07, 2012, John Stultz wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-02-07 at 02:01 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Initialize wakeup source locks in wakeup_source_add() instead of
> > wakeup_source_create(), because otherwise the locks of the wakeup
> > sources that haven't been allocated with wakeup_source_create()
> > aren't initialized and handled properly.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Ah, I've shot myself in the foot before, forgetting to init the wakeup
> source, so this should be good. Although, would a WARN_ON be better then
> just initializing the lock in add? That way bad behavior is more likely
> to be corrected, rather then just ignored.

Well, that's not bad behavior, since users are not supposed to open code
wakeup source initialization.  _add() is supposed to do the job (that's
why I regard this one as a fix).

Thanks,
Rafael
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