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: David Miller --- drivers/net/ppp_async.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6-tip/drivers/net/ppp_async.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/drivers/net/ppp_async.c +++ linux-2.6-tip/drivers/net/ppp_async.c @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ ppp_asynctty_open(struct tty_struct *tty tasklet_init(&ap->tsk, ppp_async_process, (unsigned long) ap); atomic_set(&ap->refcnt, 1); - init_MUTEX_LOCKED(&ap->dead_sem); + semaphore_init_locked(&ap->dead_sem); ap->chan.private = ap; ap->chan.ops = &async_ops; -- 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/