Re: [PATCH] Drivers:staging:ozwpan Replaced wrapper functions with actual spin lock function calls

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>]

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@gmail.com>
> ---
>  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