linux-kernel - Re: [Bug #14999] possible circular locking dependency detected in rfkill at suspend

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Date:	Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:45:58 +0100
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Testers List <kernel-testers@...r.kernel.org>,
	Maciej Rutecki <maciej.rutecki@...il.com>,
	"Christian Casteyde" <casteyde.christian@...e.fr>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Tejun Heo" <tj@...nel.org>, "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [Bug #14999] possible circular locking dependency detected in rfkill at suspend

On Monday 15 February 2010, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl> writes:
> 
> > This message has been generated automatically as a part of a summary report
> > of recent regressions.
> >
> > The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions
> > from 2.6.32.  Please verify if it still should be listed and let the tracking team
> > know (either way).
> >
> >
> > Bug-Entry	: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14999
> > Subject		: possible circular locking dependency detected in rfkill at suspend
> > Submitter	: Christian Casteyde <casteyde.christian@...e.fr>
> > Date		: 2010-01-06 21:52 (40 days old)
> 
> I have a set of patches to clear up the sysfs lockdep false positives.  
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/2/11/329
> 
> It requires sprinking a bunch of sysfs_attr_init on the few dynamically
> allocated sysfs attributes, and I haven't found them all yet.  Otherwise
> it seems to be working well.
> 
> Greg should pick up those patches shortly and they should be appearing
> in linux-next and then ultimately in 2.6.34.

Great, I'm glad that these issues are being worked on.

Thanks for the information.

Rafael
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