The usage of this "mutex" is non obvious and probably a completions in some places. Make it a semaphore. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) Index: linux-2.6-tip/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c +++ linux-2.6-tip/drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c @@ -678,7 +678,7 @@ static void dvb_frontend_stop(struct dvb kthread_stop(fepriv->thread); - init_MUTEX (&fepriv->sem); + semaphore_init(&fepriv->sem); fepriv->state = FESTATE_IDLE; /* paranoia check in case a signal arrived */ @@ -1909,7 +1909,7 @@ int dvb_register_frontend(struct dvb_ada } fepriv = fe->frontend_priv; - init_MUTEX (&fepriv->sem); + semaphore_init(&fepriv->sem); init_waitqueue_head (&fepriv->wait_queue); init_waitqueue_head (&fepriv->events.wait_queue); mutex_init(&fepriv->events.mtx); -- 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/