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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 09:45:55 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging:dgap:dgap_tty.c: Upgraded driver to use Mutex instead of semaphore
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To: Kumar Gaurav <kumargauravgupta3@gmail.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, driverdev-devel@linuxdriverproject.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lidza.louina@gmail.com

On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 09:25:32PM +0530, Kumar Gaurav wrote:
> dgap driver uses semaphore for obtaining lock. I upgraded it to use MUTEX.
> 

You are patching ancient code that doesn't exist.  Work against
linux-next.

regards,
dan carpenter