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From: Lucia Rosculete <luciarosculete@gmail.com>
To: trivial@kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lucia Rosculete <luciarosculete@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] semaphore: fix comment
Date: Sat,  3 Mar 2012 16:18:47 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1330784327-7172-1-git-send-email-luciarosculete@gmail.com> (raw)

	 Replace "mutex" with "semaphore" in down_trylock comment

Signed-off-by: Lucia Rosculete <luciarosculete@gmail.com>
---
 kernel/semaphore.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/semaphore.c b/kernel/semaphore.c
index 60636a4..4567fc0 100644
--- a/kernel/semaphore.c
+++ b/kernel/semaphore.c
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(down_killable);
  * down_trylock - try to acquire the semaphore, without waiting
  * @sem: the semaphore to be acquired
  *
- * Try to acquire the semaphore atomically.  Returns 0 if the mutex has
+ * Try to acquire the semaphore atomically.  Returns 0 if the semaphore has
  * been acquired successfully or 1 if it it cannot be acquired.
  *
  * NOTE: This return value is inverted from both spin_trylock and
-- 
1.7.6.3


             reply	other threads:[~2012-03-03 14:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-03 14:18 Lucia Rosculete [this message]
2012-03-13 10:06 ` [PATCH] semaphore: fix comment Daniel Baluta
2012-04-06  0:16   ` Jiri Kosina

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