Re: [PATCH] lockdep: fix warning in case of no_validate lock

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:06:36AM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> Now there are several locks which are marked as
> no_validate, so name of the lock class can be
> different with the no_validate lock.

Hurgh, how did that happen? See checkpatch saying:

  scripts/checkpatch.pl: "lockdep_no_validate class is reserved for device->mutex.\n" .  $herecurr);

> This patch avoids this warning for this case, and
> fix the following warning:

I'm not sure we want that.. given we should strive for less no_validate
usage, not more.