Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] idr: Document calling context for IDA APIs mustn't use locks

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Sep 10 2020 - 12:22:45 EST


On Wed, Sep 09, 2020 at 10:52:45PM -0700, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> 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.

Thank you for this, I always have to go look it up too...

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>