Re: [PATCH printk v3 12/40] tty: serial: kgdboc: document console_lock usage

From: Petr Mladek
Date: Wed Nov 09 2022 - 10:19:28 EST


On Mon 2022-11-07 15:22:10, John Ogness wrote:
> kgdboc_earlycon_init() uses the console_lock to ensure that no consoles
> are unregistered until the kgdboc_earlycon is setup. This is necessary
> because the trapping of the exit() callback assumes that the exit()
> callback is not called before the trap is setup.
>
> Explicitly document this non-typical console_lock usage.

It is great to have the description.

> Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx>

Best Regards,
Petr