The patch titled Char: mxser_new, remove useless spinlock has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was char-mxser_new-remove-useless-spinlock.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Char: mxser_new, remove useless spinlock From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx> gm_lock is useless, since ISA is configured at init time and there it's serialized. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/char/mxser_new.c | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/char/mxser_new.c~char-mxser_new-remove-useless-spinlock drivers/char/mxser_new.c --- a/drivers/char/mxser_new.c~char-mxser_new-remove-useless-spinlock +++ a/drivers/char/mxser_new.c @@ -313,7 +313,6 @@ static int mxvar_diagflag; static unsigned char mxser_msr[MXSER_PORTS + 1]; static struct mxser_mon_ext mon_data_ext; static int mxser_set_baud_method[MXSER_PORTS + 1]; -static spinlock_t gm_lock; #ifdef CONFIG_PCI static int __devinit CheckIsMoxaMust(int io) @@ -1377,7 +1376,6 @@ static int __init mxser_program_mode(int { int id, i, j, n; - spin_lock(&gm_lock); outb(0, port); outb(0, port); outb(0, port); @@ -1385,7 +1383,6 @@ static int __init mxser_program_mode(int (void)inb(port); outb(0, port); (void)inb(port); - spin_unlock(&gm_lock); id = inb(port + 1) & 0x1F; if ((id != C168_ASIC_ID) && @@ -2684,7 +2681,6 @@ static int __init mxser_module_init(void mxvar_sdriver = alloc_tty_driver(MXSER_PORTS + 1); if (!mxvar_sdriver) return -ENOMEM; - spin_lock_init(&gm_lock); printk(KERN_INFO "MOXA Smartio/Industio family driver version %s\n", MXSER_VERSION); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jirislaby@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch char-use-more-pci_device-macro.patch char-cyclades-use-pci_device_id.patch maintainers-remove-two-dead-e-mail.patch char-specialix-isr-have-2-params.patch char-timers-cleanup.patch fbdev-driver-for-s3-trio-virge-update-2-fix.patch video-fb-add-true-ref_count-atomicity.patch video-fb-kzalloc-changes.patch shrink_slab-handle-bad-shrinkers.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html