Stop holding the core_lists mutex when we don't actually need it. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali at linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at suse.de> --- drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 11 +++++------ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) 7eebcb7c0f4d45168265bdca79cc3e609d68d436 diff --git a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c index 975cb64..45e2cdf 100644 --- a/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c +++ b/drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c @@ -288,9 +288,7 @@ int i2c_register_driver(struct module *o { struct list_head *item; struct i2c_adapter *adapter; - int res = 0; - - mutex_lock(&core_lists); + int res; /* add the driver to the list of i2c drivers in the driver core */ driver->driver.owner = owner; @@ -298,8 +296,10 @@ int i2c_register_driver(struct module *o res = driver_register(&driver->driver); if (res) - goto out_unlock; + return res; + mutex_lock(&core_lists); + list_add_tail(&driver->list,&drivers); pr_debug("i2c-core: driver [%s] registered\n", driver->driver.name); @@ -311,9 +311,8 @@ int i2c_register_driver(struct module *o } } - out_unlock: mutex_unlock(&core_lists); - return res; + return 0; } EXPORT_SYMBOL(i2c_register_driver); -- 1.2.4