From: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
To: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>
Cc: chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil, ecd@atecom.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252 driver
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 19:50:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45C4C5F0-4F09-416D-A237-82FC28DF1883@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070422213959.GP5013@traven>
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
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-22 23:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-22 21:39 Matthias Kaehlcke
2007-04-22 23:50 ` Kyle Moffett [this message]
2007-04-23 6:55 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2007-04-23 7:16 ` Eddie C. Dost
2007-04-23 7:40 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2007-04-23 7:40 ` Eddie C. Dost
2007-04-23 7:57 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2007-04-23 8:02 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-04-23 8:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-23 8:35 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2007-04-22 23:52 ` Satyam Sharma
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