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authorSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>2006-10-02 08:45:08 -0400
committerSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>2006-10-02 08:45:08 -0400
commit59458f40e25915a355d8b1d701425fe9f4f9ea23 (patch)
treef1c9a2934df686e36d75f759ab7313b6f0e0e5f9 /drivers/ieee1394/dv1394-private.h
parent825f9075d74028d11d7f5932f04e1b5db3022b51 (diff)
parentd834c16516d1ebec4766fc58c059bf01311e6045 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into gfs2
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/ieee1394/dv1394-private.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/ieee1394/dv1394-private.h6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394-private.h b/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394-private.h
index 80b5ac7fe38..7d1d2845b42 100644
--- a/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394-private.h
+++ b/drivers/ieee1394/dv1394-private.h
@@ -460,7 +460,7 @@ struct video_card {
int dma_running;
/*
- 3) the sleeping semaphore 'sem' - this is used from process context only,
+ 3) the sleeping mutex 'mtx' - this is used from process context only,
to serialize various operations on the video_card. Even though only one
open() is allowed, we still need to prevent multiple threads of execution
from entering calls like read, write, ioctl, etc.
@@ -468,9 +468,9 @@ struct video_card {
I honestly can't think of a good reason to use dv1394 from several threads
at once, but we need to serialize anyway to prevent oopses =).
- NOTE: if you need both spinlock and sem, take sem first to avoid deadlock!
+ NOTE: if you need both spinlock and mtx, take mtx first to avoid deadlock!
*/
- struct semaphore sem;
+ struct mutex mtx;
/* people waiting for buffer space, please form a line here... */
wait_queue_head_t waitq;