There is no need to directly initialize the spinlock_t in struct uart_port. The structure is later passed to uart_add_one_port() which initialize the complete struct including the lock member. Remove spin_lock_init() on uart_port's internal lock. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c b/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c index 6e259f4139153..3911703918764 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c +++ b/drivers/tty/serial/pch_uart.c @@ -1725,8 +1725,6 @@ static struct eg20t_port *pch_uart_init_port(struct pci_dev *pdev, KBUILD_MODNAME ":" PCH_UART_DRIVER_DEVICE "%d", priv->port.line); - spin_lock_init(&priv->port.lock); - pci_set_drvdata(pdev, priv); priv->trigger_level = 1; priv->fcr = 0; -- 2.43.0