linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH driver-core-next] sysfs: bail early from kernfs_file

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Message-ID: <20131211053931.GA31896@kroah.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Dec 2013 21:39:31 -0800
From:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH driver-core-next] sysfs: bail early from
 kernfs_file_mmap() to avoid spurious lockdep warning

On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 09:50:04AM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Yeap, I was planning to send this out earlier but was completely
> passed out yesterday after the first snowboarding in over a decade. :)
> 
> The offending commit a8b14744429f isn't applicable to
> driver-core-next.  This was done this way because no matter what we
> do, conflict is inevitable and keeping things minimal is the least
> painful.  The following git branch pulls driver-core-linus into
> driver-core-next, resolves the conflict by ignoring the offending
> commit and applies this patch on top of it to implement the equivalent
> fix.
> 
>   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git driver-core-fix-lockdep-class

I've pulled from this and pushed it out as my driver-next branch, thanks
for doing this (note, I --ammend the patch and added my signed-off-by,
so you can't just pull and not get a conflict.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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