This formed part of the legacy driver and potentially multi users. The driver now has only one user mac80211 remove this lock. Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/vt6656/int.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/int.c b/drivers/staging/vt6656/int.c index 3fa61c368464..fcf92cd1234b 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/int.c +++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/int.c @@ -26,16 +26,11 @@ int vnt_int_start_interrupt(struct vnt_private *priv) { int ret = 0; - unsigned long flags; dev_dbg(&priv->usb->dev, "---->Interrupt Polling Thread\n"); - spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags); - ret = vnt_start_interrupt_urb(priv); - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags); - return ret; } -- 2.25.1