linux-kernel - Re: [trivial PATCH] Documentation/sparse: fix typo

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Message-ID: <20180321091819.3d519a2c@lwn.net>
Date:   Wed, 21 Mar 2018 09:18:19 -0600
From:   Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
To:     Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom@...tec.com>
Cc:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jiri Kosina <trivial@...nel.org>,
        <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [trivial PATCH] Documentation/sparse: fix typo

On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 11:10:58 +0000
Eric Engestrom <eric.engestrom@...tec.com> wrote:

>  If the function enters and exits without the lock held, acquiring and
>  releasing the lock inside the function in a balanced way, no
> -annotation is needed.  The tree annotations above are for cases where
> +annotation is needed.  The three annotations above are for cases where
>  sparse would otherwise report a context imbalance.

Applied to the docs tree, thanks.

jon