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From: arend@broadcom•com (Arend van Spriel)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists•infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/6] drivers: convert struct spinlock to spinlock_t
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 09:38:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50B87082.3020604@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1354221910-22493-1-git-send-email-mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>

On 11/29/2012 09:45 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic•com>
> 
> Turns out a few drivers have strayed away from using the
> spinlock_t typedef and decided to use struct spinlock
> directly. This series converts these drivers to use
> spinlock_t. Each change has been compile tested with
> allmodconfig and sparse checked. Driver developers
> may want to look at the compile error output / sparse
> error report supplied in each commit log, in particular
> brcmfmac and i915, there are quite a few things that
> are not related to this change that the developers
> can clean up / fix.

So what is the rationale here. During mainlining our drivers we had to
remove all uses of 'typedef struct foo foo_t;'. The Linux CodingStyle
(chapter 5 Typedefs) is spending a number of lines explaining why.

So is spinlock_t an exception to this rule simply because the kernel
uses spinlock_t all over the place. Using Greg's favorite final email
remark:

Confused.

Gr. AvS

> Luis R. Rodriguez (6):
>   ux500: convert struct spinlock to spinlock_t
>   i915: convert struct spinlock to spinlock_t
>   s5p-fimc: convert struct spinlock to spinlock_t
>   s5p-jpeg: convert struct spinlock to spinlock_t
>   brcmfmac: convert struct spinlock to spinlock_t
>   ie6xx_wdt: convert struct spinlock to spinlock_t
> 
>  drivers/crypto/ux500/cryp/cryp.h               |    4 ++--
>  drivers/crypto/ux500/hash/hash_alg.h           |    4 ++--
>  drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_drv.h                |    4 ++--
>  drivers/media/platform/s5p-fimc/mipi-csis.c    |    2 +-
>  drivers/media/platform/s5p-jpeg/jpeg-core.h    |    2 +-
>  drivers/net/wireless/brcm80211/brcmfmac/fweh.h |    2 +-
>  drivers/watchdog/ie6xx_wdt.c                   |    2 +-
>  7 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-30  8:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-29 20:45 [PATCH 0/6] drivers: convert struct spinlock to spinlock_t Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-11-29 20:45 ` [PATCH 1/6] ux500: " Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-12-01 18:11   ` Linus Walleij
2012-11-29 20:45 ` [PATCH 2/6] i915: " Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-11-29 20:49   ` Daniel Vetter
2012-11-29 20:45 ` [PATCH 3/6] s5p-fimc: " Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-11-29 20:45 ` [PATCH 4/6] s5p-jpeg: " Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-11-29 20:45 ` [PATCH 5/6] brcmfmac: " Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-11-29 20:45 ` [PATCH 6/6] ie6xx_wdt: " Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-11-30  8:38 ` Arend van Spriel [this message]
2012-11-30 19:18   ` [PATCH 0/6] drivers: " Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-11-30 20:25     ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-11-30 21:21       ` Arend van Spriel

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