Re: [PATCH] use spinlock instead of binary mutex in CDU-31A driver

Matthias Kaehlcke <[email protected]> writes:

> -static DECLARE_MUTEX(sony_sem);		/* Semaphore for drive hardware access */
> +static DEFINE_MUTEX(sony_mtx);		/* Mutex for drive hardware access */

That's not a spinlock.  Also normally some rationale is added to the
description for a change?

-Andi
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