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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: [parisc-linux] Re: [patch] spinlock consolidation, v2
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 18:31:41 +0200
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* Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> wrote:

> >  I feel a bit uneasy about using the raw 
> > spinlocks directly - they were not intended to be used like that, for 
> > the time being. Right now they are internal types.
> 
> They are arch specific types (asm/spinlock_types.h) and I'm only using 
> raw_spinlock_t in arch specific code.

please dont use the raw spinlocks. They dont carry some features such as 
debugging. (or any other future feature of the generic spinlock_t type)

	Ingo
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