On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 07:56 -0400, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Saturday 03 June 2006 04:50, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > So we're taking ps2->cmd_mutex and then we're recurring back into
> > > ps2_command() and then taking ps2->serio->cmd_mutex.
> > >
> > > I suspect that's all correct/natural/expected and needs another
> > > make-lockdep-shut-up patch.
> >
> >
> > The PS/2 code has a natural device order and there is a one level
> > recursion in this device order in terms of the cmd_mutex; annotate
> > this explicit recursion as ok
> >
>
> It is not necessarily single depth - one could have 2 or more pass-through
> ports chained together, although currently in kernel we only have Synaptics
> pass-through. If we were ever to implement pass-through port for IBMs
> trackpoints then we'd have:
>
> Synaptics<->pass-through<->TP<->pass-through<->some mouse
is there a bound to this? lockdep can deal with upto 8 or so
recursions....
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