2.4.0-ac9: bug in drivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c

From: Manfred Spraul (manfred@colorfullife.com)
Date: Wed Jan 17 2001 - 11:50:16 EST

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AFAICS mptctl_lock() and mptctl_unlock() are just buggy implementations
of down() and up().

At least the 'current->state = TASK_UNINTERRUPTIBLE' must be moved into
the while(1) loop, or both function could be replaced with a semaphore.

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	Manfred
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