The usage of these "mutex"es is non obvious and probably a completion in some places. Make them semaphores. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Dmitry Torokhov --- drivers/input/misc/hp_sdc_rtc.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6-tip/drivers/input/misc/hp_sdc_rtc.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/drivers/input/misc/hp_sdc_rtc.c +++ linux-2.6-tip/drivers/input/misc/hp_sdc_rtc.c @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ static int hp_sdc_rtc_do_read_bbrtc (str t.endidx = 91; t.seq = tseq; t.act.semaphore = &tsem; - init_MUTEX_LOCKED(&tsem); + semaphore_init_locked(&tsem); if (hp_sdc_enqueue_transaction(&t)) return -1; @@ -686,7 +686,7 @@ static int __init hp_sdc_rtc_init(void) return -ENODEV; #endif - init_MUTEX(&i8042tregs); + semaphore_init(&i8042tregs); if ((ret = hp_sdc_request_timer_irq(&hp_sdc_rtc_isr))) return ret; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/