Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Apr 2007 11:50:12 -0400 | From | "Dmitry Torokhov" <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCHES] V4L/DVB updates |
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Hi Mauro,
On 4/15/07, Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> wrote: > - Fix Kernel Bugzilla #8301: spinlock fix for flexcop-pci
While move of spin_lock_init before request_irq is obviously correct I wonder what is the reason behind changing spin_lock_irq() into spin_lock_irqsave() as I do not see flexcop_pci_isr being called from anywhere but IRQ context.
BTW, is irq_lock needed at all?
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