Re: [PATCH] spin_lock_unlocked cleanups

[Andrew Morton]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 10:17:30 +0200 Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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_...)
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