linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] dma: ipu: Drop unused spinlock

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Date:	Sun, 16 Dec 2012 21:40:06 +0100
From:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
To:	Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...ux.intel.com>, Dan Williams <djbw@...com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] dma: ipu: Drop unused spinlock

On Fri, 14 Sep 2012 08:40:12 +0530, Vinod Koul wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-09-06 at 09:19 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > I was checking why this spinlock was never initialized, but it turns
> > out it's not used anywhere, so we can drop it.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>
> > Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@...el.com>
> > Cc: Dan Williams <djbw@...com>
> > ---
> > I can't even build-test this.
> > 
> >  drivers/dma/ipu/ipu_irq.c |    1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > --- linux-3.6-rc4.orig/drivers/dma/ipu/ipu_irq.c	2012-08-04 21:49:26.000000000 +0200
> > +++ linux-3.6-rc4/drivers/dma/ipu/ipu_irq.c	2012-09-06 09:13:31.034228670 +0200
> > @@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ static void ipu_write_reg(struct ipu *ip
> >  struct ipu_irq_bank {
> >  	unsigned int	control;
> >  	unsigned int	status;
> > -	spinlock_t	lock;
> >  	struct ipu	*ipu;
> >  };
>
> Dan, you okay with this?

What happened to this patch? Dan, please?

-- 
Jean Delvare
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