Hi Mauro, On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 09:04:02AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Right now, the lock schema for media_device struct is messy, > since sometimes, it is protected via a spin lock, while, for > media graph traversal, it is protected by a mutex. > > Solve this conflict by always using a mutex. > > As a side effect, this prevents a bug where the media notifiers > were called at atomic context. > > Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> The scope of mdev->lock isn't much, really. I think this is fine, no need to create another mutex. Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <sakari.ailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Sakari Ailus e-mail: sakari.ailus@xxxxxx XMPP: sailus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
