V4L/DVB (8532): mxl5007t: remove excessive locks
authorMichael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Sat, 26 Jul 2008 18:43:17 +0000 (15:43 -0300)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Sun, 27 Jul 2008 14:07:35 +0000 (11:07 -0300)
commit74b9ef21162fd81d9de87319c4373f523e2869cd
tree2c6a4f202511838d328f7e8841744c38a4f24f9b
parentc39c1fd29373d204b11b71946d0f4c97e4974dd9
V4L/DVB (8532): mxl5007t: remove excessive locks

The use of mutex locking is overly paranoid in this driver.
The only locks we need are around the manipulation of the
register arrays. The other locks are not needed - remove them.

Thanks to Steven Toth for pointing this out.

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
drivers/media/common/tuners/mxl5007t.c