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

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Message-Id: <20131211110319.33065ea7642d1fd5775531be@canb.auug.org.au>
Date:	Wed, 11 Dec 2013 11:03:19 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, 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

Hi Tejun,

On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:50:04 -0500 Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> Greg, given that there will be more patches in driver-core-next, I
> think it'll be best to pull driver-core-linus into driver-core-next to
> avoid conflicts from the same commit.  You can pull my commit or if
> you pull it yourself, just take all the chunks from driver-core-next
> so that the resulting fs/sysfs/file.c is unchanged compared to
> driver-core-next before pull, and then apply this patch.
> 
> ------ 8< ------
> From 5cb9f29a28c87cbf62f74ff6bde3d9da2a565b1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:29:17 -0500
> 
> This is v3.14 fix for the same issue that a8b14744429f ("sysfs: give

I have added the patch as a merge fix patch for the merge of the
driver-core tree today.  I will throw it away if/when Greg applies it.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>

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