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From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
To: "Prashant P. Shah" <pshah.mumbai@gmail.com>
Cc: "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Frank Mori Hess <fmhess@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Ian Abbott <ian.abbott@mev.co.uk>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: comedi: dyna_pci10xx: replace semaphore with mutex
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 13:00:02 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DF0B5C2.6030500@mev.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110609115215.GA14569@mail.fossee.in>

On 09/06/11 12:52, Prashant P. Shah wrote:
> -	sema_init(&devpriv->sem, 1);
> +	mutex_init(&devpriv->mutex);
>  	dev->board_ptr = &boardtypes[board_index];
>  	devpriv->pci_dev = pcidev;

You could call mutex_destroy() in your _detach routine as well.  It's
used for debugging mutexes:

static int dyna_pci10xx_detach(struct comedi_device *dev)
{
	if (devpriv && devpriv->pci_dev) {
		comedi_pci_disable(devpriv->pci_dev);
		mutex_destroy(&devpriv->mutex);
	}
	return 0;
}

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-09 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-09 11:52 [PATCH] Staging: comedi: dyna_pci10xx: replace semaphore with mutex Prashant P. Shah
2011-06-09 12:00 ` Ian Abbott [this message]
2011-06-13  7:17   ` Prashant Shah

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