From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>,
tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/7] staging: most: Use spinlock_t instead of struct spinlock
Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 12:02:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190706100253.GA20497@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190704153803.12739-5-bigeasy@linutronix.de>
On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 05:38:00PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> For spinlocks the type spinlock_t should be used instead of "struct
> spinlock".
Why?
> Use spinlock_t for spinlock's definition.
Why? I agree it makes the code smaller, but why is this required?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-06 10:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-07-04 15:37 [PATCH 0/7] Use spinlock_t instead of struct spinlock Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-07-04 15:37 ` [PATCH 1/7] crypto: ux500: " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-07-26 12:10 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-26 12:32 ` Herbert Xu
2019-07-04 15:37 ` [PATCH 2/7] vmpressure: " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-07-26 12:09 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-26 22:50 ` Andrew Morton
2019-07-27 6:13 ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-04 15:37 ` [PATCH 3/7] drm/vgem: " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-07-04 15:38 ` [PATCH 4/7] staging: most: " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-07-06 10:02 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-07-06 21:35 ` Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-07-15 19:19 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-07-26 11:22 ` [PATCH v2] staging: most: Use DEFINE_SPINLOCK() " Thomas Gleixner
2019-07-04 15:38 ` [PATCH 5/7] watchdog: ie6xx_wdt: Use spinlock_t " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-07-08 17:55 ` Guenter Roeck
2019-07-04 15:38 ` [PATCH 6/7] nfp: " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-07-04 20:42 ` Jakub Kicinski
2019-07-05 23:18 ` David Miller
2019-07-04 15:38 ` [PATCH 7/7] gpiolib: " Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
2019-07-05 9:33 ` Bartosz Golaszewski
2019-07-06 18:15 ` Linus Walleij
2019-07-04 15:39 ` [PATCH 0/7] " David Laight
2019-07-04 15:45 ` 'Sebastian Andrzej Siewior'
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