Re: [PATCH] IB/mthca: comment fix

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Mon Jul 10 2006 - 07:29:09 EST


Quoting r. Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] IB/mthca: comment fix
>
> On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 14:14 +0300, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > Hi Andrew,
> > Here's a cosmetic patch for IB/mthca. Pls drop it into -mm and on.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > comment in mthca_qp.c makes it seem lockdep is the only reason WQ locks should
> > be initialized separately, but as Zach Brown and Roland pointed out, there are
> > other reasons, e.g. that mthca_wq_init is called from modify qp as well.
>
> ehh.. shouldn't the comment say that instead then? that's one tricky
> thing and might as well have that documented in the code!

Hmm. Okay. Maybe we should rename mthca_wq_init to mthca_wq_reset?
This would make it clear that it does not init the spinlocks,
but just resets the rest of the fields, would not it?

How does this sound?

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