Re: [PATCH v4] HID: Remove the semaphore driver_lock

[Jiri Kosina]

On Wed, 14 Jun 2017, Binoy Jayan wrote:

> The semaphore 'driver_lock' is used as a simple mutex, and
> also unnecessary as suggested by Arnd. Hence removing it, as
> the concurrency between the probe and remove is already
> handled in the driver core.
> 
> Suggested-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> v3 --> v4:
> Changed title
> 
> v2 --> v3:
> Removed reference to driver_lock in comments
> 
> v1 --> v2:
> Removed driver_lock

Applied to hid.git#for-4.14/driver-lock-removal. Thanks,

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs