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authorStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>2006-07-03 12:02:32 -0400
committerBen Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>2006-07-03 12:02:32 -0400
commit438bd525e5240a48233cd3290f7fe66ff0167e20 (patch)
tree5559a543c9ff18290b29fded7e20522308fea5dc /drivers/ieee1394/dv1394-private.h
parentd8831d5554c2f295a6746e9d3b4cbd8bb13a540f (diff)
[PATCH] ieee1394: dv1394: sem2mutex conversion
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> (not runtime-tested) Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ieee1394/dv1394-private.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/ieee1394/dv1394-private.h6
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;