Re: [PATCH] wireless: wl12xx, fix lock imbalance

[Jiri Slaby]

On 07/13/2009 11:44 PM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
>> I've had local hacks
>> many times to make sparse aware of mutexes, is there a reason they are
>> not annotated with __acquire(s)/__release(s) like spinlocks etc.?
> 
> Mutexes are often locked/unlocked interprocedural which I think sparse
> can't do much about.

(which means it has high false positive rate in those cases)
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