* Brice Goglin <[email protected]> wrote:
> >Could you try the patch below?
>
> Yes, it does fix it. What's the bug ? The mutexes are supposed to work
> where semaphores do, aren't they ?
no, not always. We could introduce mutex_trylock_irqsafe() and
mutex_unlock_irqsafe(), but it's probably not worth doing it - it's just
3-4 cases so far, out of hundreds of mutex conversions.
Ingo
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