Re: [PATCH 0/3] Synaptics - fix lockdep warnings

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On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> Yes, this is much, much better. Could you please tell me if depth should 
> be a true depth or just an unique number? The reason I am asking is that 
> I hope to get rid of parent/child pointers in serio (they were 
> introduced when driver core could not handle recursive addition/removing 
> of devices on the same bus).

I am afraid you can't generate just any unique number to represent the 
lock class, as the lockdep validator fails if the class number is higher 
than MAX_LOCKDEP_SUBCLASSES, which is by default 8.

Regarding the patches - should I submit them upstream, or will you?

Thanks,

-- 
JiKos.
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