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author | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2006-10-02 08:45:08 -0400 |
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committer | Steven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com> | 2006-10-02 08:45:08 -0400 |
commit | 59458f40e25915a355d8b1d701425fe9f4f9ea23 (patch) | |
tree | f1c9a2934df686e36d75f759ab7313b6f0e0e5f9 /drivers/ieee1394/dv1394-private.h | |
parent | 825f9075d74028d11d7f5932f04e1b5db3022b51 (diff) | |
parent | d834c16516d1ebec4766fc58c059bf01311e6045 (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' into gfs2
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ieee1394/dv1394-private.h')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/ieee1394/dv1394-private.h | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394-private.h b/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394-private.h index 80b5ac7fe38..7d1d2845b42 100644 --- a/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394-private.h +++ b/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394-private.h @@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ struct video_card { int dma_running; /* - 3) the sleeping semaphore 'sem' - this is used from process context only, + 3) the sleeping mutex 'mtx' - this is used from process context only, to serialize various operations on the video_card. Even though only one open() is allowed, we still need to prevent multiple threads of execution from entering calls like read, write, ioctl, etc. @@ -468,9 +468,9 @@ struct video_card { I honestly can't think of a good reason to use dv1394 from several threads at once, but we need to serialize anyway to prevent oopses =). - NOTE: if you need both spinlock and sem, take sem first to avoid deadlock! + NOTE: if you need both spinlock and mtx, take mtx first to avoid deadlock! */ - struct semaphore sem; + struct mutex mtx; /* people waiting for buffer space, please form a line here... */ wait_queue_head_t waitq; |