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authorBinoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org>2017-06-14 10:29:51 +0300
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2017-08-01 14:12:46 +0300
commit6f68f0ac72087c29a94d1736324902e3ec07a4ec (patch)
tree21eccc6ce85d005d4a669c55aee0638010cf2d02 /include/linux/hid.h
parenta9d0683e0b62b46c7a5d0ebd8f642d8f9a4b7b32 (diff)
downloadlinux-6f68f0ac72087c29a94d1736324902e3ec07a4ec.tar.xz
HID: Remove the semaphore driver_lock
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@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org> Acked-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/hid.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/hid.h3
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/hid.h b/include/linux/hid.h
index 5006f9b5d837..142409fc1ff3 100644
--- a/include/linux/hid.h
+++ b/include/linux/hid.h
@@ -526,7 +526,6 @@ struct hid_device { /* device report descriptor */
struct hid_report_enum report_enum[HID_REPORT_TYPES];
struct work_struct led_work; /* delayed LED worker */
- struct semaphore driver_lock; /* protects the current driver, except during input */
struct semaphore driver_input_lock; /* protects the current driver */
struct device dev; /* device */
struct hid_driver *driver;
@@ -551,7 +550,7 @@ struct hid_device { /* device report descriptor */
unsigned int status; /* see STAT flags above */
unsigned claimed; /* Claimed by hidinput, hiddev? */
unsigned quirks; /* Various quirks the device can pull on us */
- bool io_started; /* Protected by driver_lock. If IO has started */
+ bool io_started; /* If IO has started */
struct list_head inputs; /* The list of inputs */
void *hiddev; /* The hiddev structure */