Re: [PATCH] ieee1394: dv1394: sem2mutex conversion

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Sat, 2006-06-24 at 19:37 +0200, Stefan Richter wrote:
> 
> -               if (down_trylock(&video->sem)) {
> +               if (mutex_trylock(&video->mtx)) {

this is a bug!

mutex_trylock follows the spinlock trylock convention, not the semaphore
trylock convention!!!


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