linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/7] Use spinlock_t instead of struct spinlock

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Date:   Thu, 4 Jul 2019 17:45:50 +0200
From:   'Sebastian Andrzej Siewior' <bigeasy@...utronix.de>
To:     David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
Cc:     "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "tglx@...utronix.de" <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] Use spinlock_t instead of struct spinlock

On 2019-07-04 15:39:41 [+0000], David Laight wrote:
> I thought it was policy to avoid typedefs?
> Probably because you can only define them once.

We don't have many of them but we have them and should stick to them.

|$ git grep -A4 "spinlock de" scripts/
|scripts/checkpatch.pl:# check for struct spinlock declarations
|scripts/checkpatch.pl-          if ($line =~ /^.\s*\bstruct\s+spinlock\s+\w+\s*;/) {
|scripts/checkpatch.pl-                  WARN("USE_SPINLOCK_T",
|scripts/checkpatch.pl-                       "struct spinlock should be spinlock_t\n" . $herecurr);
|scripts/checkpatch.pl-          }

> 	David

Sebastian