linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] serial: Initialize spinlocks in 8250 and don't clobber them.

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Date:	Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:38:33 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>,
	linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-mips@...ux-mips.org, Tomaso.Paoletti@...iumnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] serial: Initialize spinlocks in 8250 and don't clobber
 them.

> But yes, copying a spinlock by value is quite wrong.  Perhaps we could
> retain the struct assigment and then run spin_lock_init() to get the
> spinlock into a sane state?

Kind of irrelevant now however, the split of patches that caused the
original bug is over and the NR_IRQ removal patch half of it hit Linus
tree.

Alan
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