[PATCH] sisusbvga: Remove the BKL from ioctl

[PATCH] sisusbvga: Remove the BKL from ioctl

[Alessio Igor Bogani]

Seems to me that BKL is not needed here because necessary locking is already
provided by mutex sisusb->lock.

Also change the returned value to long.

Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
---
 drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c |    5 +----
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c b/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c
index 8b37a4b..79b4175 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@
 #include <linux/spinlock.h>
 #include <linux/kref.h>
 #include <linux/usb.h>
-#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
 #include <linux/vmalloc.h>
 
 #include "sisusb.h"
@@ -2964,13 +2963,12 @@ sisusb_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 	struct sisusb_usb_data *sisusb;
 	struct sisusb_info x;
 	struct sisusb_command y;
-	int	retval = 0;
+	long retval = 0;
 	u32 __user *argp = (u32 __user *)arg;
 
 	if (!(sisusb = (struct sisusb_usb_data *)file->private_data))
 		return -ENODEV;
 
-	lock_kernel();
 	mutex_lock(&sisusb->lock);
 
 	/* Sanity check */
@@ -3029,7 +3027,6 @@ sisusb_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 
 err_out:
 	mutex_unlock(&sisusb->lock);
-	unlock_kernel();
 	return retval;
 }
 
-- 
1.6.3.3

[PATCH] sisusbvga: Remove the BKL from ioctl

[Alessio Igor Bogani]

Seems to me that BKL is not needed here because necessary locking is already
provided by mutex sisusb->lock.

Also change the returned value to long.

Signed-off-by: Alessio Igor Bogani <abogani@texware.it>
---
 drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c |    4 +---
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c b/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c
index 8b37a4b..b0746c3 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c
@@ -2964,13 +2964,12 @@ sisusb_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 	struct sisusb_usb_data *sisusb;
 	struct sisusb_info x;
 	struct sisusb_command y;
-	int	retval = 0;
+	long retval = 0;
 	u32 __user *argp = (u32 __user *)arg;
 
 	if (!(sisusb = (struct sisusb_usb_data *)file->private_data))
 		return -ENODEV;
 
-	lock_kernel();
 	mutex_lock(&sisusb->lock);
 
 	/* Sanity check */
@@ -3029,7 +3028,6 @@ sisusb_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 
 err_out:
 	mutex_unlock(&sisusb->lock);
-	unlock_kernel();
 	return retval;
 }
 
-- 
1.6.3.3