Re: [tip:locking/urgent] i2c/mux, locking/core: Annotate the nested rt_mutex usage

[Ingo Molnar]

* Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 2018-07-25 16:19, tip-bot for Peter Rosin wrote:
> > Commit-ID:  7b94ea50514d1a0dc94f02723b603c27bc0ea597
> > Gitweb:     https://git.kernel.org/tip/7b94ea50514d1a0dc94f02723b603c27bc0ea597
> > Author:     Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > AuthorDate: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 10:39:14 +0200
> > Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > CommitDate: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 11:22:20 +0200
> > 
> > i2c/mux, locking/core: Annotate the nested rt_mutex usage
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I'm a bit curious as to why the subject line was changed on this patch?
> 
> (it was "[PATCH v4 2/2] i2c: mux: annotate the nested rt_mutex usage")
> 
> I thought the subject as I wrote it was just perfect. Was it so bad that it
> had to be edited?

It wasn't "bad", I improved it to signal that it has a new locking API dependency,
in particular that's it's dependent on this commit:

  62cedf3e60af: locking/rtmutex: Allow specifying a subclass for nested locking

This also clarified it why this i2c commit is in locking/urgent.

Thanks,

	Ingo