linux-kernel - Re: [KJ]remove SPIN_LOCK

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Message-ID: <ada7isjq52p.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2007 14:42:38 -0700
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
Cc:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...dspring.com>,
	Milind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@...il.com>,
	kernel-janitors@...ts.osdl.org, kernelnewbies@...linux.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [KJ]remove 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.
 > 
 > I don't remember LDD speaking about __RAW_*. (And other than not
 > having looked into the code to date, I don't know the difference.)

Don't worry about the __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED stuff, that's obviously
not for generic code to use.  The right answer (as I said before) is
to use DEFINE_SPINLOCK().

 - R.
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