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[6/6] staging: vt6656: remove RX complete locking.

Message ID 1443341864-2756-6-git-send-email-tvboxspy@gmail.com (mailing list archive)
State Not Applicable
Delegated to: Kalle Valo
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Malcolm Priestley Sept. 27, 2015, 8:17 a.m. UTC 
The lock in vnt_submit_rx_urb_complete is blocked by TX activity.

The lock comes from a time when RX needed to be synchronized with
other parts of the driver because the WLAN API was in driver.

Since this is now dealt with in mac80211 the lock is unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy@gmail.com>
---
 drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c | 6 ------
 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c b/drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c
index a5912dd..c975c3b 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vt6656/usbpipe.c
@@ -168,7 +168,6 @@  static void vnt_submit_rx_urb_complete(struct urb *urb)
 {
 	struct vnt_rcb *rcb = urb->context;
 	struct vnt_private *priv = rcb->priv;
-	unsigned long flags;
 
 	switch (urb->status) {
 	case 0:
@@ -184,8 +183,6 @@  static void vnt_submit_rx_urb_complete(struct urb *urb)
 	}
 
 	if (urb->actual_length) {
-		spin_lock_irqsave(&priv->lock, flags);
-
 		if (vnt_rx_data(priv, rcb, urb->actual_length)) {
 			rcb->skb = dev_alloc_skb(priv->rx_buf_sz);
 			if (!rcb->skb) {
@@ -193,7 +190,6 @@  static void vnt_submit_rx_urb_complete(struct urb *urb)
 					"Failed to re-alloc rx skb\n");
 
 				rcb->in_use = false;
-				spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
 				return;
 			}
 		} else {
@@ -203,8 +199,6 @@  static void vnt_submit_rx_urb_complete(struct urb *urb)
 
 		urb->transfer_buffer = skb_put(rcb->skb,
 						skb_tailroom(rcb->skb));
-
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&priv->lock, flags);
 	}
 
 	if (usb_submit_urb(urb, GFP_ATOMIC)) {