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-rw-r--r--drivers/watchdog/wdt977.c4
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/watchdog/wdt977.c b/drivers/watchdog/wdt977.c
index 7d300ff7ab07..9b7f6b6edef6 100644
--- a/drivers/watchdog/wdt977.c
+++ b/drivers/watchdog/wdt977.c
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ static	int timeoutM;				/* timeout in minutes */
 static	unsigned long timer_alive;
 static	int testmode;
 static	char expect_close;
-static	spinlock_t spinlock;
+static	DEFINE_SPINLOCK(spinlock);
 
 module_param(timeout, int, 0);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(timeout,"Watchdog timeout in seconds (60..15300), default=" __MODULE_STRING(DEFAULT_TIMEOUT) ")");
@@ -448,8 +448,6 @@ static int __init wd977_init(void)
 
 	printk(KERN_INFO PFX DRIVER_VERSION);
 
-	spin_lock_init(&spinlock);
-
 	/* Check that the timeout value is within it's range ; if not reset to the default */
 	if (wdt977_set_timeout(timeout))
 	{