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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: roel <12o3l@tiscali.nl>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spin_lock_unlocked cleanups
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 01:26:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070928012656.0bae3991.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1190967450.18681.10.camel@chaos>

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:17:30 +0200 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.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.

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 ;)

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

  reply	other threads:[~2007-09-28  8:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-27 21:36 [PATCH] spin_lock_unlocked cleanups roel
2007-09-28  8:17 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-28  8:26   ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2007-09-28  8:30     ` Ingo Molnar
2007-09-28  8:55       ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-28  8:32     ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-28  8:56       ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-09-28  9:06         ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-28 21:15           ` Sean
2007-09-28  8:53     ` Andy Whitcroft
2007-09-28  9:05       ` Andrew Morton
2007-09-28 17:31     ` Mark Gross

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