From: Arnd Bergmann Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:56:45 +0000 (+0200) Subject: dvb-core: kill the big kernel lock X-Git-Tag: v2.6.37-rc1~176^2~6 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=72024f1ec5164a70d84dd8cf4458fe4064a6b692;p=pandora-kernel.git 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 Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org --- Reading git-diff-tree failed