Re: [KJ] remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 05:45:07PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> that works fine if you're defining a single spinlock, but what do you
> do in cases like this:
> 
> arch/sparc/lib/atomic32.c:      [0 ... (ATOMIC_HASH_SIZE-1)] = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED
> 
> that is, when you're assigning an array of them?  you still need some
> kind of generic, unnamed spinlock in those circumstances, no?

That's a special case for architecture-only code.  It's not to be used
by drivers.
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