drivers: Remove BKL from scx200_gpio
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Sat, 10 Oct 2009 14:02:53 +0000 (16:02 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 15:36:53 +0000 (17:36 +0200)
cycle_kernel_lock() was added during the big BKL pushdown. It should
ensure the serializiation against driver init code. In this case there
is nothing to serialize. Remove it.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
LKML-Reference: <20091010153350.167321547@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
drivers/char/scx200_gpio.c

index 1d91005..99e5272 100644 (file)
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
 #include <linux/platform_device.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
 
@@ -52,7 +51,6 @@ static int scx200_gpio_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
        unsigned m = iminor(inode);
        file->private_data = &scx200_gpio_ops;
 
-       cycle_kernel_lock();
        if (m >= MAX_PINS)
                return -EINVAL;
        return nonseekable_open(inode, file);