Re: [PATCH] net: dsa: mv88e6060: Fix false positive lockdep splat

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Thu Oct 22 2015 - 08:06:26 EST


> Well, mdio-mux also calls switch_fn inside the mdio_lock, clean refactoring
> would introduce a separate lock and call the nested variants.
> Is that ok ? Can someone test mdio-mux if I make the change ?

Hi Neil

I would not touch mdio-mux. As you said, it does more than lock, read,
unlock. It is not something sufficiently generic to place into shared
code.

Andrew
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