diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index ea5c7493ede0..33cf21540a5b 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 0979ae66464bd9793c6701861bccb21f9f118a52
+refs/heads/master: 88982fea52d0115d44b77619afef576f24cdb844
diff --git a/trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e0a674f471ee..f27b0b53e3ea 100755
--- a/trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3336,6 +3336,12 @@ sub process {
 			     "Avoid line continuations in quoted strings\n" . $herecurr);
 		}
 
+# check for struct spinlock declarations
+		if ($line =~ /^.\s*\bstruct\s+spinlock\s+\w+\s*;/) {
+			WARN("USE_SPINLOCK_T",
+			     "struct spinlock should be spinlock_t\n" . $herecurr);
+		}
+
 # Check for misused memsets
 		if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
 		    defined $stat &&