| commit | 72250d44bc76d3d7fa9253aeeb063a467e2458fa | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | Tue Sep 14 09:35:04 2010 +0000 |
| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | Wed Sep 15 19:29:55 2010 -0700 |
| tree | 55e926467b3bc7a50e213c357e295225457072ff | |
| parent | 0a5f1d476aef43916abb2b8634ebff23ef2c05f6 [diff] |
i4l: kill big kernel lock The isdn4linux driver uses the big kernel lock only to serialize access to a few fields in its own modem_info structure. The easiest replacement is a driver-wide mutex. More fine-grained locking would be more appropriate here, but likely harder to implement. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Karsten Keil <isdn@linux-pingi.de> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>