Re: [PATCH] lockdep: fix sk->sk_callback_lock locking

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From: Herbert Xu <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 23:07:09 +1100

> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 12:42:24PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > 
> > However I'm not quite sure yet how to teach lockdep about this. The
> > proposed patch will shut it up though.
> 
> As a rule I think we should never make semantic changes to shut up
> lockdep.

Especially ones which are costly, as this proposed change is in
that it disables software interrupts in a place where that
is completely unnecessary.

Let's not even consider this patch :)
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