[Patch RFC 09/37] hamradio: mkiss: semaphore cleanup

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sun Jul 26 2009 - 04:26:12 EST


The usage of this "mutex" is non obvious and probably a completion in
some places. Make it a semaphore.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6-tip/drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6-tip.orig/drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c
+++ linux-2.6-tip/drivers/net/hamradio/mkiss.c
@@ -745,7 +745,7 @@ static int mkiss_open(struct tty_struct

spin_lock_init(&ax->buflock);
atomic_set(&ax->refcnt, 1);
- init_MUTEX_LOCKED(&ax->dead_sem);
+ semaphore_init_locked(&ax->dead_sem);

ax->tty = tty;
tty->disc_data = ax;


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