The patch titled memstick: remove mspro_block_mutex has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is memstick-remove-mspro_block_mutex.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: memstick: remove mspro_block_mutex From: Alex Dubov <oakad@xxxxxxxxx> mspro_block_mutex is identical in scope to mspro_block_disk_lock and therefore unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Alex Dubov <oakad@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c | 9 +-------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c~memstick-remove-mspro_block_mutex drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c --- a/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c~memstick-remove-mspro_block_mutex +++ a/drivers/memstick/core/mspro_block.c @@ -23,7 +23,6 @@ #define DRIVER_NAME "mspro_block" -static DEFINE_MUTEX(mspro_block_mutex); static int major; module_param(major, int, 0644); @@ -181,7 +180,6 @@ static int mspro_block_bd_open(struct bl struct mspro_block_data *msb = disk->private_data; int rc = -ENXIO; - mutex_lock(&mspro_block_mutex); mutex_lock(&mspro_block_disk_lock); if (msb && msb->card) { @@ -193,7 +191,6 @@ static int mspro_block_bd_open(struct bl } mutex_unlock(&mspro_block_disk_lock); - mutex_unlock(&mspro_block_mutex); return rc; } @@ -225,11 +222,7 @@ static int mspro_block_disk_release(stru static int mspro_block_bd_release(struct gendisk *disk, fmode_t mode) { - int ret; - mutex_lock(&mspro_block_mutex); - ret = mspro_block_disk_release(disk); - mutex_unlock(&mspro_block_mutex); - return ret; + return mspro_block_disk_release(disk); } static int mspro_block_bd_getgeo(struct block_device *bdev, _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from oakad@xxxxxxxxx are memstick-core-fix-device_register-error-handling.patch memstick-fix-setup-for-jmicron-38x-controllers.patch memstick-set-pmos-values-propery-for-jmicron-38x-controllers.patch memstick-add-support-for-jmicron-jmb-385-and-390-controllers.patch memstick-avert-possible-race-condition-between-idr_pre_get-and-idr_get_new.patch memstick-remove-mspro_block_mutex.patch memstick-factor-out-transfer-initiating-functionality-in-mspro_blockc.patch memstick-add-support-for-mspro-specific-data-transfer-method.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