On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 01:12:02PM +0100, Salah Triki wrote:
> dgnc_poll_stop is a local variable in dgnc_driver.c, so it is useless to take
> dgnc_poll_lock before
> accessing to this variable.
No, not at all! scope doesn't matter for locks, this patch is broken
and wrong.
How did you test it?
dgnc_poll_stop is a local variable in dgnc_driver.c, so it is useless to take
dgnc_poll_lock before
accessing to this variable.
Signed-off-by: Salah Triki
---
drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c | 3 ---
1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
b/drivers/s
