Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750815AbVLOQvi (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:51:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750813AbVLOQvi (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:51:38 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:64483 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750810AbVLOQvg (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Dec 2005 11:51:36 -0500 From: David Howells In-Reply-To: References: <17313.37200.728099.873988@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1134559121.25663.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> <13820.1134558138@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <20051213143147.d2a57fb3.pj@sgi.com> <20051213094053.33284360.pj@sgi.com> <20051212161944.3185a3f9.akpm@osdl.org> <20051213075441.GB6765@elte.hu> <20051213090219.GA27857@infradead.org> <20051213093949.GC26097@elte.hu> <20051213100015.GA32194@elte.hu> <6281.1134498864@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <14242.1134558772@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <16315.1134563707@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> <1134568731.4275.4.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <43A0AD54.6050109@rtr.ca> <20051214155432.320f2950.akpm@osdl.org> <17313.29296.170999.539035@gargle.gargle.HOWL> <1134658579.12421.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4743.1134662116@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Howells , Nikita Danilov , Alan Cox , Andrew Morton , tglx@linutronix.de, pj@sgi.com, mingo@elte.hu, hch@infradead.org, arjan@infradead.org, matthew@wil.cx, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/19] MUTEX: Introduce simple mutex implementation X-Mailer: MH-E 7.84; nmh 1.1; GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:51:02 +0000 Message-ID: <6256.1134665462@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 461 Lines: 13 Linus Torvalds wrote: > Think about it a bit. We don't have DECLARE_SPINLOCK either. Why? I thought it was something to do with initialising struct list_heads, which spinlocks don't have. David - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/