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 <[email protected]>
---
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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