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Message-ID: <Y2vFWikTudvmVC4g@alley>
Date:   Wed, 9 Nov 2022 16:20:58 +0100
From:   Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>
To:     John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH printk v3 13/40] tty: tty_io: document console_lock usage

On Mon 2022-11-07 15:22:11, John Ogness wrote:
> show_cons_active() uses the console_lock to gather information
> on registered consoles. Since the console_lock is being used for
> multiple reasons, explicitly document these reasons. This will
> be useful when the console_lock is split into fine-grained
> locking.

It is great to have this documented.

> Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@...utronix.de>

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>

Best Regards,
Petr

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