dvb-core: kill the big kernel lock
authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:56:45 +0000 (19:56 +0200)
committerArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:29:56 +0000 (11:29 +0200)
commit72024f1ec5164a70d84dd8cf4458fe4064a6b692
treefb0848c2bb91af16f46e2fca8de55675f9b1e3d2
parentadfedd216d9f0bc3f5bfa8aab42932301d4edc31
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 <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dmxdev.c
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_ca_en50221.c
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_net.c
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvbdev.c