#include <linux/namei.h>
 #include <linux/poll.h>
 #include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
-#include <asm/semaphore.h>
 
 #include "sysfs.h"
 
        loff_t                  pos;
        char                    * page;
        struct sysfs_ops        * ops;
-       struct semaphore        sem;
+       struct mutex            mutex;
        int                     needs_read_fill;
        int                     event;
 };
        struct sysfs_buffer * buffer = file->private_data;
        ssize_t retval = 0;
 
-       down(&buffer->sem);
+       mutex_lock(&buffer->mutex);
        if (buffer->needs_read_fill) {
                retval = fill_read_buffer(file->f_path.dentry,buffer);
                if (retval)
        retval = simple_read_from_buffer(buf, count, ppos, buffer->page,
                                         buffer->count);
 out:
-       up(&buffer->sem);
+       mutex_unlock(&buffer->mutex);
        return retval;
 }
 
        struct sysfs_buffer * buffer = file->private_data;
        ssize_t len;
 
-       down(&buffer->sem);
+       mutex_lock(&buffer->mutex);
        len = fill_write_buffer(buffer, buf, count);
        if (len > 0)
                len = flush_write_buffer(file->f_path.dentry, buffer, len);
        if (len > 0)
                *ppos += len;
-       up(&buffer->sem);
+       mutex_unlock(&buffer->mutex);
        return len;
 }
 
        if (!buffer)
                goto err_out;
 
-       init_MUTEX(&buffer->sem);
+       mutex_init(&buffer->mutex);
        buffer->needs_read_fill = 1;
        buffer->ops = ops;
        file->private_data = buffer;