Weirdness in SPARC patches in 2.1.127

Horst von Brand (vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl)
Sun, 08 Nov 1998 21:36:07 -0400

The file arch/sparc/kernel/smp.c defines:

/* Kernel spinlock */
spinlock_t kernel_flag = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;

+/* Used to make bitops atomic */
+unsigned char bitops_spinlock = 0;
+

Shouldn't both be the same type and initialization?

Just wondering...

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Horst von Brand                             vonbrand@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl
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