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author	Mike Thomas <rmthomas@sciolus.org>
	Sun, 7 Nov 2010 20:09:19 +0000 (20:09 +0000)
committer	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
	Wed, 10 Nov 2010 00:31:15 +0000 (16:31 -0800)
commit	ae59dad4fef271222d65ac6afe2889eb12ea6ca9
tree	d0f5faa52d1ca75c5104d6c52699b5c72d588fbc	tree \| snapshot
parent	2a87a0b9220f8e0e6f204b0f61dc6e15ad64ccd4	commit \| diff

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 <rmthomas@sciolus.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

ep93xx device tree rework repo: git://git.maquefel.me/linux.git

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drivers/staging/easycap/Kconfig		diff \| blob \| history
drivers/staging/easycap/Makefile		diff \| blob \| history
drivers/staging/easycap/easycap.h		diff \| blob \| history
drivers/staging/easycap/easycap_debug.h		diff \| blob \| history
drivers/staging/easycap/easycap_ioctl.c		diff \| blob \| history
drivers/staging/easycap/easycap_low.c		diff \| blob \| history
drivers/staging/easycap/easycap_main.c		diff \| blob \| history
drivers/staging/easycap/easycap_sound.c		diff \| blob \| history