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nozomi: Fix mutex handling
authorAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Mon, 8 Feb 2010 10:07:04 +0000 (10:07 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 2 Mar 2010 22:43:20 +0000 (14:43 -0800)
commite8c65d143a9903cb553c0d80c819428c5b839a02
tree58cea659ac19c23a4c5475a362c157c9497ef10ftree | snapshot
parent266794eb71cfee65b38371954b9db2f6dbda207ccommit | diff
nozomi: Fix mutex handling

The original author didn't realise the kernel lock was a drop while sleep
lock so did clever (and wrong) things to work around the non need to avoid
deadlocks. Remove the cleverness and the comment (as we don't hold the BKL
now anyway in those paths)

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/char/nozomi.c diff | blob | history
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