Re: [PATCH 2/5] Use mutex instead of semaphore in the OnStream SCSITape driver

[Satyam Sharma]

Hi,


On Sun, 29 Jul 2007, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:

> The OnStream SCSI Tape driver uses a semaphore as mutex. Use the mutex
> API instead of the (binary) semaphore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@xxxxxxxxx>
> [...]
> @@ -3298,7 +3298,7 @@ static ssize_t osst_write(struct file * filp, const char __user * buf, size_t co
>  	char		    * name = tape_name(STp);
>  
>  
> -	if (down_interruptible(&STp->lock))
> +	if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&STp->lock))
>  		return (-ERESTARTSYS);

The () after return existed in the code already, but you could've felt
free to remove them :-)

> @@ -3619,7 +3619,7 @@ static ssize_t osst_read(struct file * filp, char __user * buf, size_t count, lo
>  	char		    * name  = tape_name(STp);
>  
>  
> -	if (down_interruptible(&STp->lock))
> +	if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&STp->lock))
>  		return (-ERESTARTSYS);

Same here.

Reviewed-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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