On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 07:50:18PM +0100, Robin Murphy wrote: > > There is a difference between knowingly introducing new lockdep warnings > > into upstream and letting warnings discovered upstream rot for a while. > > Furthermore I'd say it's one thing to have deadlocks or warnings slip in as > part of some functional change, but quite another when the change is solely > reworking the locking in an attempt to make it better. This is clearly not > better. Exactly what isn't better? We now print a warning when pre-existing locking rules are violated. That is the only issue here. Jason