Re: [PATCH] gpio: pca953x: add a comment explaining the need for a lockdep subclass

From: Wolfram Sang
Date: Mon Sep 26 2016 - 06:01:03 EST


On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 11:54:15AM +0200, Bartosz Golaszewski wrote:
> This is a follow-up to commit 559b46990e76 ("gpio: pca953x: fix an
> incorrect lockdep warning"). The reason for calling
> lockdep_set_subclass() in pca953x_probe() is not explained in
> the code.
>
> Add a comment describing the problem, partial solution and required
> future extensions.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Linus, because of dependencies, I should probably pick it up?

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