Re: [PATCH] i2c: core: Workaround false-positive LOCKDEP in delete_device

[Wolfram Sang]

> +			/*
> +			 * We drop the mutex here, because device unregister
> +			 * will take sysfs lock (kn->count) which, as LOCKDEP
> +			 * would think, depends on this mutex
> +			 */

I have to ask: can't lockdep be fixed or the lock somehow be annotated
to prevent the false positive?

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