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Arnd Bergmann committed 72024f1ec51
dvb-core: kill the big kernel lock The dvb core only uses the big kernel lock in the open and ioctl functions, which means it can be replaced with a dvb specific mutex. Fortunately, all the ioctl functions go through dvb_usercopy, so we can move the serialization in there. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org