The usage of this "mutex" is non obvious and probably a completion in some places. Make it a semaphore. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Dmitry Torokhov --- drivers/input/mouse/hil_ptr.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6-tip/drivers/input/mouse/hil_ptr.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/drivers/input/mouse/hil_ptr.c +++ linux-2.6-tip/drivers/input/mouse/hil_ptr.c @@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ static int hil_ptr_connect(struct serio serio_set_drvdata(serio, ptr); ptr->serio = serio; - init_MUTEX_LOCKED(&ptr->sem); + semaphore_init_locked(&ptr->sem); /* Get device info. MLC driver supplies devid/status/etc. */ serio->write(serio, 0); -- 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/