This patch introduces a bug. On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 06:59:20PM -0800, Surendra Patil wrote: > Replaced all the spin lock/unlock wrappers from oz_polling_lock_bh() > and oz_polllin_unlock_bh() with spin_lock_bh(&g_polling_lock) and > spin_unlock_bh(&g_polling_lock).Completely erased the wrappers defination > and declaration. > Module builded successfully with sparse without warnings. > > Signed-off-by: Surendra Patil <surendra.tux@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/staging/ozwpan/ozpd.c | 29 +++++++++++++++-------------- > drivers/staging/ozwpan/ozproto.c | 9 --------- > drivers/staging/ozwpan/ozproto.h | 2 -- > 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/ozwpan/ozpd.c b/drivers/staging/ozwpan/ozpd.c > index 7436950..66c3a2c 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/ozwpan/ozpd.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/ozwpan/ozpd.c > @@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ > > #define OZ_MAX_TX_POOL_SIZE 6 > > +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(g_polling_lock); This doesn't work. Now you have two lock variables which just happen to have the same name. You need to make the original g_polling_lock not static and add a declaration to the header file. regards, dan carpenter _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
