tree 55e926467b3bc7a50e213c357e295225457072ff
parent 0a5f1d476aef43916abb2b8634ebff23ef2c05f6
author Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> 1284456904 +0000
committer David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 1284604195 -0700

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>