On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 17:02 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 16:37 +0100, Joachim Fenkes wrote:
> 
> > +   u64 flags;
> 
> > -   spin_lock(&shca_list_lock);
> > +   spin_lock_irqsave(&shca_list_lock, flags);
> 
> That's wrong and I think will give a warning on all machines where
> u64 != unsigned long. Might not particularly matter in this case.

Crud, sorry.

> Also, generally it seems wrong to say "fix lockdep failure" when the
> patch really fixes a bug that lockdep happened to find.

True. I guess it should be "fix locking error found with lockdep", to
make it clear no one has actually hit the bug.

cheers

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