From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:19:27 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: staging: get rid of dev_base_lock
X-Git-Tag: v3.12-rc1~7798^2~392
X-Git-Url: http://review.tizen.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8892384803af7082056fe29faef02fd0c762493e;p=kernel%2Fkernel-generic.git

staging: get rid of dev_base_lock

dev_base_lock was the legacy rwlock used to protect netdevice list, and
is expected to vanish.

We now use RTNL and RCU locking.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_sysfs.c b/drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_sysfs.c
index e4c8804..9b833b3 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_sysfs.c
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ static ssize_t show_tallies(struct device *d, struct device_attribute *attr,
     CFG_HERMES_TALLIES_STRCT tallies;
     ssize_t ret = -EINVAL;
 
-    read_lock(&dev_base_lock);
+    rcu_read_lock();
     if (dev_isalive(dev)) {
 	wl_lock(lp, &flags);
 
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ static ssize_t show_tallies(struct device *d, struct device_attribute *attr,
 	    }
     }
 
-    read_unlock(&dev_base_lock);
+    rcu_read_unlock();
     return ret;
 }