netdev - Re: [PATCH 13/18] i4l: kill big kernel lock

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Message-Id: <20100915.193131.108799689.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:31:31 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	arnd@...db.de
Cc:	isdn@...ux-pingi.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/18] i4l: kill big kernel lock

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:35:04 +0200

> 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@...db.de>

Applied.
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