Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation

From: David Howells
Date: Thu Dec 15 2005 - 11:50:43 EST


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Think about it a bit. We don't have DECLARE_SPINLOCK either. Why?

I thought it was something to do with initialising struct list_heads, which
spinlocks don't have.

David
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