Return-path: Received: from mail-pz0-f42.google.com ([209.85.210.42]:59960 "EHLO mail-pz0-f42.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752442Ab1HAL4c (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Aug 2011 07:56:32 -0400 Received: by pzk37 with SMTP id 37so11372511pzk.1 for ; Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:56:32 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:54:30 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: Franky Lin Cc: gregkh@suse.de, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 18/35] staging: brcm80211: use mutex instead of semaphore in dhd_linux.c Message-ID: <20110801115430.GH5575@shale.localdomain> (sfid-20110801_135646_971190_97D1538C) References: <1310678971-28952-1-git-send-email-frankyl@broadcom.com> <1310678971-28952-19-git-send-email-frankyl@broadcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1310678971-28952-19-git-send-email-frankyl@broadcom.com> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 02:29:14PM -0700, Franky Lin wrote: > From: Arend van Spriel > > The semaphore proto_sem has been replaced with mutex proto_block > which lock certain code paths for one thread. > This one doesn't apply any more after the 3.1 merge window. It was modified in 1380516599 "Merge branch 'staging-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6" regards, dan carpenter