Re: [PATCH] Hibernation: Fix lockdep report (v2)

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On Tuesday, 13 of November 2007, Johannes Berg wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 14:59 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > [Len, please add this patch to the suspend branch, thanks.]
> > ---
> > From: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Lockdep reports a circular locking dependency in the hibernate code
> > because
> >  - during system boot hibernate code (from an initcall) locks pm_mutex
> >    and then a sysfs buffer mutex via name_to_dev_t
> >  - during regular operation hibernate code locks pm_mutex under a
> >    sysfs buffer mutex because it's called from sysfs methods.
> 
> Ping? Do I need to follow this or will somebody take care to merge it
> before .24 closes?

I wanted it to go via Len's tree, but unfortunately Len has not been responsive
recently.

I'll push it to Andrew later today.

Thanks,
Rafael
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