Re: [patch 1/1] unified spinlock initialization arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c

[Zwane Mwaikambo]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, linux-os wrote:

> We need to retain the spin_lock_init(&lock) because not all spin-locks
> are allocated at compile-time. They might be allocated from kmalloc()
> on startup, probably in a structure, along with other so-called
> global data.

Not to worry my good man, it's not going anywhere.
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