From: Mike Thomas Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2010 20:09:19 +0000 (+0000) Subject: staging/easycap: Eliminate BKL X-Git-Tag: v2.6.38-rc1~423^2~353 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ae59dad4fef271222d65ac6afe2889eb12ea6ca9;p=pandora-kernel.git staging/easycap: Eliminate BKL No locking is required for normal operation of the driver, but locking is needed to prevent an Oops during some hot-unplugging scenarios. The BKL is replaced here by mutex locks together with traps to detect null pointers following asynchronous device disconnection. Signed-off-by: Mike Thomas Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Reading git-diff-tree failed