From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
Cc: Matthias Kaehlcke <matthias.kaehlcke@gmail.com>,
chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil, ecd@atecom.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252 driver
Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2007 09:17:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070423081753.GA27664@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45C4C5F0-4F09-416D-A237-82FC28DF1883@mac.com>
On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 07:50:36PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Apr 22, 2007, at 17:39:59, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> >use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252 driver
>
> I think you really meant: "Use mutex instead of binary semaphore in
> idt77252 driver", since this is a binary semaphore (not a mutex,
> which are always binary):
And the binary semaphore terminology i a little confusing. struct
semaphore is a full counting semaphore that is only used as a binary
semaphore if we want to speak in CS terms. Than everyone else just
caled them semaphore before these patches started to show up :)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-23 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-22 21:39 [PATCH] use spinlock instead of binary mutex in idt77252 driver Matthias Kaehlcke
2007-04-22 23:50 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-04-23 6:55 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2007-04-23 7:16 ` Eddie C. Dost
2007-04-23 7:40 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2007-04-23 7:40 ` Eddie C. Dost
2007-04-23 7:57 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2007-04-23 8:02 ` Satyam Sharma
2007-04-23 8:17 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2007-04-23 8:35 ` Matthias Kaehlcke
2007-04-22 23:52 ` Satyam Sharma
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