Access to dev->initialized is atomic and dev->initialized isn't accessed in any other code protected by this mutex. Therefore we don't need to get the mutex here. Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@xxxxxxxxx> --- v2: - corrected commit message --- drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c b/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c index 4e9bbe7..68541b1 100644 --- a/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c +++ b/drivers/media/rc/rc-main.c @@ -1492,9 +1492,7 @@ int rc_register_device(struct rc_dev *dev) } /* Allow the RC sysfs nodes to be accessible */ - mutex_lock(&dev->lock); atomic_set(&dev->initialized, 1); - mutex_unlock(&dev->lock); IR_dprintk(1, "Registered rc%u (driver: %s, remote: %s, mode %s)\n", dev->minor, -- 2.7.3 -- 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