From: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED is deprecated. The following makes the change suggested in Documentation/spinlocks.txt The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://www.emn.fr/x-info/coccinelle/) // <smpl> @@ declarer name DEFINE_SPINLOCK; identifier xxx_lock; @@ - spinlock_t xxx_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; + DEFINE_SPINLOCK(xxx_lock); // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@xxxxxxx> --- diff -u -p a/drivers/staging/meilhaus/memain.c b/drivers/staging/meilhaus/memain.c --- a/drivers/staging/meilhaus/memain.c +++ b/drivers/staging/meilhaus/memain.c @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ MODULE_PARM(major, "i"); static struct file *me_filep = NULL; static int me_count = 0; -static spinlock_t me_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED; +static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(me_lock); static DECLARE_RWSEM(me_rwsem); /* Board instances are kept in a global list */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html