Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751657AbdFHO6P (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2017 10:58:15 -0400 Received: from mail-ot0-f193.google.com ([74.125.82.193]:36163 "EHLO mail-ot0-f193.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751412AbdFHO6N (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Jun 2017 10:58:13 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1496916183-4097-1-git-send-email-binoy.jayan@linaro.org> References: <1496916183-4097-1-git-send-email-binoy.jayan@linaro.org> From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2017 16:58:12 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: yvCbCMZ2WEspfIljgGVcLZb6FMM Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] mwifiex: Replace semaphore async_sem with mutex To: Binoy Jayan Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Rajendra , Mark Brown , Amitkumar Karwar , Nishant Sarmukadam , Ganapathi Bhat , Xinming Hu , Kalle Valo , linux-wireless , Networking Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 426 Lines: 13 On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Binoy Jayan wrote: > The semaphore 'async_sem' is used as a simple mutex, so > it should be written as one. Semaphores are going away in the future. > > Signed-off-by: Binoy Jayan > --- > > This patch is part of a bigger effort to eliminate unwanted > semaphores from the linux kernel. Looks good, Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann