Re: [KJ]remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED

Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-10T21:30:51Z

On Apr 10 2007 17:25, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Apr 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>> On Apr 10 2007 23:46, Milind Arun Choudhary wrote:
>>
>> >"use spin_lock_init instead of SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED"
>>
>> Fact is, we cannot remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED. It's needed for
>> variables outside functions:
>>
>> static spinlock_t foobar = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
>
>but that's where you would use the more explicit
>__RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED, no? AFAIK, you really can remove the macro
>SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED in its entirety.

I don't remember LDD speaking about __RAW_*. (And other than not
having looked into the code to date, I don't know the difference.)

Jan
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