Re: [PATCH] serial: Initialize spinlocks in 8250 and don't clobberthem.

[Alan Cox]

> The question is:  What is the best way to initialize some (or all) fields of a structure *except* a single lock field that was previously initialized?

Move the initialisation - or at least memset to zero then spin_lock_init
and fill in the other fields later.
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