I think no need to make 'happened' static as we just check 'ud->event' feild. Maybe making this function inline would make more sense. inline int usbip_event_happened(struct usbip_device *ud) { return ud->event ? 1 : 0; } Thanks Harvey On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Prashant Shah <kerneldev100@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > >> int happened = 0; >> >> - spin_lock(&ud->lock); >> if (ud->event != 0) >> happened = 1; >> - spin_unlock(&ud->lock); >> >> return happened; > > I am guessing locking was intended to protect ud->event along with > happened so that (checking the value of ud->event and setting value of > happened) was atomic. > > return ud->event != 0 ? 1 : 0; > > Regards. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html