Re: [PATCH] serial: Initialize spinlocks in 8250 and don't clobber them.

Alan Cox
2008-10-21T09:39:06Z

> But yes, copying a spinlock by value is quite wrong. Perhaps we could
> retain the struct assigment and then run spin_lock_init() to get the
> spinlock into a sane state?

Kind of irrelevant now however, the split of patches that caused the
original bug is over and the NR_IRQ removal patch half of it hit Linus
tree.

Alan