Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] idr: Document calling context for IDA APIs mustn't use locks

From: Stephen Boyd
Date: Thu Oct 03 2019 - 17:10:41 EST


Quoting Stephen Boyd (2019-07-30 14:20:47)
> The documentation for these functions indicates that callers don't need
> to hold a lock while calling them, but that documentation is only in one
> place under "IDA Usage". Let's state the same information on each IDA
> function so that it's clear what the calling context requires.
> Furthermore, let's document ida_simple_get() with the same information
> so that callers know how this API works.
>
> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Tri Vo <trong@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Boyd <swboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Ping? Can this be picked up, maybe into the doc tree?