linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] Synaptics

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Date:	Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:08:21 +0200 (CEST)
From:	Jiri Kosina <jikos@...os.cz>
To:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Synaptics - fix lockdep warnings

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> Yes, this is much, much better. Could you please tell me if depth should 
> be a true depth or just an unique number? The reason I am asking is that 
> I hope to get rid of parent/child pointers in serio (they were 
> introduced when driver core could not handle recursive addition/removing 
> of devices on the same bus).

I am afraid you can't generate just any unique number to represent the 
lock class, as the lockdep validator fails if the class number is higher 
than MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES, which is by default 8.

Regarding the patches - should I submit them upstream, or will you?

Thanks,

-- 
JiKos.
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