Hi Jean,

On Sun, Dec 16, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Jean Delvare <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 14:03:27 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Jean Delvare <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > It doesn't seem this spinlock was properly initialized.
>>
>> Quiet possible. There's no SMP on m68k, so all spinlock ops expand to 
>> nothing.
>
> Can we apply my patch still? Or were you suggesting you're fine with
> the code as it is?
>
> Certainly this isn't my area of expertise but I don't quite get the
> point of passing a custom lock to blk_init_queue() if locks resolve to
> nothing anyway.

Thanks, applied and queued for 3.9.

>> > Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <[email protected]>
>> > Cc: Finn Thain <[email protected]>
>> > Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
>> > ---
>> > I can't even build-test this.
>> >
>> >  drivers/block/swim.c |    1 +
>> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>> >
>> > --- linux-3.6-rc4.orig/drivers/block/swim.c     2012-07-21 
>> > 22:58:29.000000000 +0200
>> > +++ linux-3.6-rc4/drivers/block/swim.c  2012-09-06 13:09:26.713382169 +0200
>> > @@ -845,6 +845,7 @@ static int __devinit swim_floppy_init(st
>> >                 swd->unit[drive].swd = swd;
>> >         }
>> >
>> > +       spin_lock_init(&swd->lock);
>> >         swd->queue = blk_init_queue(do_fd_request, &swd->lock);
>> >         if (!swd->queue) {
>> >                 err = -ENOMEM;

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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