On 4/23/07, Matthias Kaehlcke <[email protected]> wrote:
use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252 driver
Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <[email protected]>
--
diff --git a/drivers/atm/idt77252.c b/drivers/atm/idt77252.c
index b4b8014..e3cf141 100644
--- a/drivers/atm/idt77252.c
+++ b/drivers/atm/idt77252.c
@@ -2430,7 +2430,7 @@ idt77252_open(struct atm_vcc *vcc)
set_bit(ATM_VF_ADDR, &vcc->flags);
- down(&card->mutex);
+ mutex_lock(&card->mutex);
Note that you're actually replacing a semaphore with a mutex here (and
not a mutex with a spinlock). I guess that should be fine and
desirable as long as the semaphore was indeed being used a mutex
(binary) in this code.
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