Re: lock context warnings

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On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 12:20:18PM +0300, Alexey Zaytsev wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 11:45, Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > Since a few month sparse keeps spewing tons of wrong lock context
> > warnings like:
> 
> Yes, the warnings are wrong, and the patches that were supposeed to
> fix them breoke other things, so they were never merged.
> Christopher reverted the patches that introduced the new warnings
> in his tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/sparse/chrisl/sparse.git
> until someone fixes or rewrites the context checking.
> 
> It looks like Christopher is serious about maintaining this tree, so
> people should probably switch to using it.

That tree looks much better, only a few lock context warnings left which
look legit from a first scan.  I'll keep using that tree for now.
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