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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 13/18] i4l: kill big kernel lock
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:31:31 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 21:35:04 +0200

> The isdn4linux driver uses the big kernel lock only
> to serialize access to a few fields in its own
> modem_info structure.
> 
> The easiest replacement is a driver-wide mutex.
> More fine-grained locking would be more appropriate
> here, but likely harder to implement.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

Applied.