Re: Converting dev->mutex into dev->spinlock ?

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On Sun, 5 Feb 2023 11:46:06 -0500 Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> And by the way, by disabling lockdep validation I am declaraing that 
> enabling it would cause an overwhelming number of false positives, 

Could you share 5 false positives you see upstream to help understand how
it is useless?

Hillf

> rendering lockdep useless (as you found out when you tried).  Not that 
> driver developers don't have to worry about dev->mutex.
> 
> Alan Stern




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