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Message-Id: <1267449056-30274-1-git-send-email-abogani@texware.it>
Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 14:10:56 +0100
From: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...ware.it>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@...ischhofer.net>,
Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@...hat.com>, Tanaka Akira <akr@...j.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...ware.it>
Subject: [PATCH] sisusbvga: Remove the BKL from ioctl
Seems to me that BKL is not needed here because necessary locking is already
provided by mutex sisusb->lock.
Also change the returned value to long.
Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@...ware.it>
---
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c | 4 +---
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c b/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c
index 8b37a4b..b0746c3 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c
@@ -2964,13 +2964,12 @@ sisusb_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
struct sisusb_usb_data *sisusb;
struct sisusb_info x;
struct sisusb_command y;
- int retval = 0;
+ long retval = 0;
u32 __user *argp = (u32 __user *)arg;
if (!(sisusb = (struct sisusb_usb_data *)file->private_data))
return -ENODEV;
- lock_kernel();
mutex_lock(&sisusb->lock);
/* Sanity check */
@@ -3029,7 +3028,6 @@ sisusb_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
err_out:
mutex_unlock(&sisusb->lock);
- unlock_kernel();
return retval;
}
--
1.6.3.3
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