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Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 12:18:16 +0200
From: Thomas Sailer <t.sailer@alumni.ethz.ch>
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To: Alex Riesen <a.riesen@traian.de>
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Subject: Re: init_rwsem redefinition warning in usbdevice_fs.h
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Alex Riesen wrote:

> Should it be fixed? And, maybe the other define's around
> should be fixed too?

The comment line above actually says it all. The defines
have been added because at the time of writing this file
rw semaphores did not work in a module, so they were
replaced with mutexes using these defines. If rw sems work
now just delete these defines

Tom
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