Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 19:09:08 -0700 (MST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: linux-os <linux-os@analogic.com>
cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
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Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] unified spinlock initialization arch/um/drivers/port_kern.c
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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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