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Message-Id: <20090728080951.D0AE2526EC9@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net>
Date:	Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:36:01 -0700
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [Patch RFC 02/37] input: keyboard/hil_kbd: semaphore cleanup

On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 08:17:15AM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The usage of this "mutex" is non obvious and probably a completion in
> some places. Make it a semaphore.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...l.ru>
> ---
>  drivers/input/keyboard/hil_kbd.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> Index: linux-2.6-tip/drivers/input/keyboard/hil_kbd.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6-tip.orig/drivers/input/keyboard/hil_kbd.c
> +++ linux-2.6-tip/drivers/input/keyboard/hil_kbd.c
> @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ static int hil_kbd_connect(struct serio 
>  	serio_set_drvdata(serio, kbd);
>  	kbd->serio = serio;
>  
> -	init_MUTEX_LOCKED(&kbd->sem);
> +	semaphore_init_locked(&kbd->sem);
>  

I started working on conversion of that into a completion, I'll
commit as soon as I get someone to test it.

-- 
Dmitry
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