Re: [PATCH 1/2] DVB: dvb_frontend: convert semaphore to mutex

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On 24.08.2011 20:06, Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Andreas Oberritter <obi@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> It's impossible to clean up dvb_frontend.c, which looks quite
>> unmaintained, without touching it.
> 
> It is quite unmaintained.  In fact, it was broken for numerous cards
> for almost two years before I finally got someone in the Hauppauge UK
> office to mail me a couple of affected boards to test with.
> 
> Now that it works, I'm very hesitant to see any chances made unless
> there is a *very* good reason. It's just too damn easy to introduce
> subtle bugs in there that work for "your card" but cause breakage for
> others.

Instead of wasting your time with theory, you could have easily reviewed
my patch. It's really *very* simple any anyone having used semphores or
mutexes in the kernel should be able to see that.
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