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Date:	Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:10:24 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Cc:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Miles Lane <miles.lane@...il.com>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 0/2] sysfs: fix s_active lockdep warning

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 06:57:28PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 06:22 -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > Heh, this whole mess is the very reason we didn't add lockdep support to
> > the driver core.  Nested devices that all look alike from the driver
> > core, are really different objects and the locking lifetimes are
> > separate, but lockdep can't see that. 
> 
> And here I through Alan Stern had a handle on making the driver core
> play nice.

It's not the driver core that is the issue here, it's that lockdep can't
handle the tree structure of devices that is represented in the kernel.

I don't think it is a driver core problem, but rather, a lockdep issue.

thanks,

greg k-h
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