Re: [KJ]remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED

From: Roland Dreier
Date: Tue Apr 10 2007 - 17:43:08 EST


> >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.)

Don't worry about the __RAW_SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED stuff, that's obviously
not for generic code to use. The right answer (as I said before) is
to use DEFINE_SPINLOCK().

- R.
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