On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > On Apr 10 2007 23:46, Milind Arun Choudhary wrote: > > >"use spin_lock_init instead of SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED" > > Fact is, we cannot remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED. It's needed for > variables outside functions: > > static spinlock_t foobar = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
but that's where you would use the more explicit __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED, no? AFAIK, you really can remove the macro SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED in its entirety. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://fsdev.net/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
