On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:57:36PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jan 2008, Jarek Poplawski wrote: > > On the other hand, according to Greg the code is OK, so if there are any > > such warnings they simply have to be false! (...Unless you trust lockdep > > more?!) > > It's not a matter of trust or of false warnings. People shouldn't > tolerate any lockdep warnings at all; otherwise they will start to > ignore the valid ones. > > Alan Stern > > P.S.: Just because Greg says the code is okay doesn't mean it will > please lockdep -- it doesn't even mean the code really is okay! I've > known Greg to make an occasional mistake.
I've known Greg to make lots of mistakes :) I don't remember ever saying that the "code is correct with the lockdep warnings", I think I said, "Make sure there are no lockdep warnings with any conversion you do." thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
