linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] spin_lock

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Message-Id: <1190968358.18681.14.camel@chaos>
Date:	Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:32:38 +0200
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	roel <12o3l@...cali.nl>, lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spin_lock_unlocked cleanups

On Fri, 2007-09-28 at 01:26 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:17:30 +0200 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de> wrote:
> 
> > can we please add this to checkpatch.pl ? 
> > 
> > > -spinlock_t bpci_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
> > > +DEFINE_SPINLOCK(bpci_lock);
> 
> That check is already in checkpatch.  Problem is that hardly anyone
> runs the thing.

Sigh, I forgot that perl is write only. :)

> I think we're ready to wire checkpatch up to a email robot which monitors
> the mailing lists and sends people nastygrams.  I bet that'll be popular ;)

We should wire it up to git-commit as well. A lot of that comes in via
git subsystems.

> (I'd love it if it could detect wordwrapped and tab-expanded patches, too. 
> You wouldn't _believe_...)

I know ...

	tglx


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