netdev - [PATCH] econet: kill unnecessary spin_lock

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Date:	Sat, 28 Aug 2010 11:41:56 +0900
From:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
To:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>,
	Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] econet: kill unnecessary spin_lock_init()

The spinlock aun_queue_lock is initialized statically. It is unnecessary
to initialize by spin_lock_init() at module load time.

This is detected by the semantic patch.

// <smpl>
@def@
declarer name DEFINE_SPINLOCK;
identifier spinlock;
@@

DEFINE_SPINLOCK(spinlock);

@@
identifier def.spinlock;
@@

- spin_lock_init(&spinlock);
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@...u.dk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
---
 net/econet/af_econet.c |    2 --
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/econet/af_econet.c b/net/econet/af_econet.c
index dc54bd0..baa98fb 100644
--- a/net/econet/af_econet.c
+++ b/net/econet/af_econet.c
@@ -1009,7 +1009,6 @@ static int __init aun_udp_initialise(void)
 	struct sockaddr_in sin;
 
 	skb_queue_head_init(&aun_queue);
-	spin_lock_init(&aun_queue_lock);
 	setup_timer(&ab_cleanup_timer, ab_cleanup, 0);
 	ab_cleanup_timer.expires = jiffies + (HZ*2);
 	add_timer(&ab_cleanup_timer);
@@ -1167,7 +1166,6 @@ static int __init econet_proto_init(void)
 		goto out;
 	sock_register(&econet_family_ops);
 #ifdef CONFIG_ECONET_AUNUDP
-	spin_lock_init(&aun_queue_lock);
 	aun_udp_initialise();
 #endif
 #ifdef CONFIG_ECONET_NATIVE
-- 
1.6.0.6

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