[PATCH] Document SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED/RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED deprecation

[Michael Ellerman]

Apparently it's not cool anymore to use SPIN/RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED.
There's some mention of this in Documentation/spinlocks.txt, but that
only talks about dynamic initialisation.

A comment in the code mentioning the preferred usage would be good IMHO.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 include/linux/spinlock_types.h |    5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

Index: powerpc/include/linux/spinlock_types.h
===================================================================
--- powerpc.orig/include/linux/spinlock_types.h
+++ powerpc/include/linux/spinlock_types.h
@@ -85,6 +85,11 @@ typedef struct {
 				RW_DEP_MAP_INIT(lockname) }
 #endif
 
+/*
+ * SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED and RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED are deprecated.
+ * Please use DEFINE_SPINLOCK()/DEFINE_RWLOCK() or
+ * __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED()/__RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED() as appropriate.
+ */
 #define SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED	__SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED(old_style_spin_init)
 #define RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED	__RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED(old_style_rw_init)
 
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