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: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/wan/cosa.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6-tip/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c +++ linux-2.6-tip/drivers/net/wan/cosa.c @@ -574,7 +574,7 @@ static int cosa_probe(int base, int irq, /* Initialize the chardev data structures */ mutex_init(&chan->rlock); - init_MUTEX(&chan->wsem); + semaphore_init(&chan->wsem); /* Register the network interface */ if (!(chan->netdev = alloc_hdlcdev(chan))) { -- 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/