[PATCH 0/6] drivers: convert struct spinlock to spinlock_t

[mcgrof at do-not-panic.com (Luis R. Rodriguez)]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 12:38 AM, Arend van Spriel <arend at broadcom.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes.

  Luis