Re: [PATCH] use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252 driver

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>]

On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 07:50:36PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Apr 22, 2007, at 17:39:59, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> >use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252 driver
> 
> I think you really meant: "Use mutex instead of binary semaphore in  
> idt77252 driver", since this is a binary semaphore (not a mutex,  
> which are always binary):

And the binary semaphore terminology i a little confusing. struct
semaphore is a full counting semaphore that is only used as a binary
semaphore if we want to speak in CS terms.  Than everyone else just
caled them semaphore before these patches started to show up :)

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