Re: [PATCH driver-core-next] sysfs: bail early fromkernfs_file_mmap() to avoid spurious lockdep warning

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Dec 11 2013 - 00:38:04 EST


On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 09:50:04AM -0500, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Yeap, I was planning to send this out earlier but was completely
> passed out yesterday after the first snowboarding in over a decade. :)
>
> The offending commit a8b14744429f isn't applicable to
> driver-core-next. This was done this way because no matter what we
> do, conflict is inevitable and keeping things minimal is the least
> painful. The following git branch pulls driver-core-linus into
> driver-core-next, resolves the conflict by ignoring the offending
> commit and applies this patch on top of it to implement the equivalent
> fix.
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/misc.git driver-core-fix-lockdep-class

I've pulled from this and pushed it out as my driver-next branch, thanks
for doing this (note, I --ammend the patch and added my signed-off-by,
so you can't just pull and not get a conflict.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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