| commit | 72024f1ec5164a70d84dd8cf4458fe4064a6b692 | [log] [tgz] |
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| author | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | Sat Sep 11 19:56:45 2010 +0200 |
| committer | Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> | Tue Oct 19 11:29:56 2010 +0200 |
| tree | fb0848c2bb91af16f46e2fca8de55675f9b1e3d2 | |
| parent | adfedd216d9f0bc3f5bfa8aab42932301d4edc31 [diff] |
dvb-core: kill the big kernel lock The dvb core only uses the big kernel lock in the open and ioctl functions, which means it can be replaced with a dvb specific mutex. Fortunately, all the ioctl functions go through dvb_usercopy, so we can move the serialization in there. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org