Re: [PATCH 4/7] staging: most: Use spinlock_t instead of struct spinlock

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2019 at 05:38:00PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> For spinlocks the type spinlock_t should be used instead of "struct
> spinlock".

Why?

> Use spinlock_t for spinlock's definition.

Why?  I agree it makes the code smaller, but why is this required?

thanks,

greg k-h