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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252 driver
    El Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 07:50:36PM -0400 Kyle Moffett ha dit:

    > 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):
    > >- struct semaphore mutex;
    >
    > and this is a mutex, not a spinlock:
    > >+ struct mutex mutex;
    >
    > Everything else looks good though

    you're totally right. like in another patch i sent at the same time i
    messed up the description. as you point out it should read "Use mutex
    instead of binary semaphore in idt77252 driver". in the last days i
    reported some spinlock related bugs, i suppose that made me write
    spinlock instead of mutex ...

    thanks for your comments

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