On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 03:06:38PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > 3. Since SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED now takes the lock itself as an > > argument, what is the best way to initialize per-CPU > > locks? An explicit initialization function, or is there > > some way that I am missing to make an initializer? > > Ouch, I just notice that (been using an older version for some time). > > Ingo, is this to force the initialization of the lists instead of at > runtime?
ANSI C99 is missing a concept of "self" during auto-intialization. The explicit passing of the lvalue is needed so that it can be propagated downward to other macros in the initialization structure. list_head initialization is one of those things if I remember correctly. bill - 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/
