Re: [PATCH] sysfs: differentiate between locking links and non-links

[Tejun Heo]

Hello,

On 02/10/2010 11:08 AM, AmÃrico Wang wrote:
> This bug report is new for me. Recently we received lots of sysfs lockdep
> warnings, I am working on a patch to fix all the bogus ones.
> 
> However, this one is _not_ similar to the other cases, as you decribed.
> This patch could fix the problem, but not a good fix, IMO. We need more
> work in sysfs layer to fix this kind of things. I will take care of this.

Can't we just give each s_active lock a separate class?  Would that be
too costly?

Thanks.

-- 
tejun
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