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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: quatech_usb2: Convert eos semaphore to mutex
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Am Samstag, 15. Mai 2010 23:40:02 schrieb Alessio Igor Bogani:
> The eos semaphore is used as a mutex so replace it with a real mutex.

Documentation/mutex-design.txt states that a mutex must not be used
from within an interrupt handler. Is this outdated?

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		Oliver