netdev - Re: [patch 10/15] ppp_generic: fix lockdep warning

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Date:	Thu, 26 Apr 2007 01:39:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jarkao2@...pl, jura@...ams.com,
	paulus@...ba.org
Subject: Re: [patch 10/15] ppp_generic: fix lockdep warning

From: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:27:29 -0700

> lockdep has seen locks "-> #0" - "-> #3" taken in circular order, but IMHO,
> lock "-> #3" (&pch->downl) taken after "-> #2" (&ppp->wlock) differs from
> &pch->downl lock taken in "-> #0" (before &vlan_netdev_xmit_lock_key) and
> lockdep should be notified about this.
> 
> Reported & tested by: "Yuriy N. Shkandybin" <jura@...ams.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

I believe there were some problems found in this one,
so I'm going to hold on it for now.
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