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| author | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | 2010-09-14 09:35:04 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2010-09-15 19:29:55 -0700 |
| commit | 72250d44bc76d3d7fa9253aeeb063a467e2458fa (patch) | |
| tree | 55e926467b3bc7a50e213c357e295225457072ff /README | |
| parent | 0a5f1d476aef43916abb2b8634ebff23ef2c05f6 (diff) | |
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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>
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