Commit 692e42df authored by Brandon Philips's avatar Brandon Philips Committed by Mauro Carvalho Chehab

[media] bttv: remove unneeded locking comments

After Mauro's "bttv: Fix locking issues due to BKL removal code" there
are a number of comments that are no longer needed about lock ordering.
Remove them.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBrandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
parent 587f0d5d
......@@ -2359,13 +2359,6 @@ static int setup_window_lock(struct bttv_fh *fh, struct bttv *btv,
fh->ov.field = win->field;
fh->ov.setup_ok = 1;
/*
* FIXME: btv is protected by btv->lock mutex, while btv->init
* is protected by fh->cap.vb_lock. This seems to open the
* possibility for some race situations. Maybe the better would
* be to unify those locks or to use another way to store the
* init values that will be consumed by videobuf callbacks
*/
btv->init.ov.w.width = win->w.width;
btv->init.ov.w.height = win->w.height;
btv->init.ov.field = win->field;
......@@ -3220,15 +3213,6 @@ static int bttv_open(struct file *file)
return -ENOMEM;
file->private_data = fh;
/*
* btv is protected by btv->lock mutex, while btv->init and other
* streaming vars are protected by fh->cap.vb_lock. We need to take
* care of both locks to avoid troubles. However, vb_lock is used also
* inside videobuf, without calling buf->lock. So, it is a very bad
* idea to hold both locks at the same time.
* Let's first copy btv->init at fh, holding cap.vb_lock, and then work
* with the rest of init, holding btv->lock.
*/
*fh = btv->init;
fh->type = type;
......@@ -3303,10 +3287,6 @@ static int bttv_release(struct file *file)
/* free stuff */
/*
* videobuf uses cap.vb_lock - we should avoid holding btv->lock,
* otherwise we may have dead lock conditions
*/
videobuf_mmap_free(&fh->cap);
videobuf_mmap_free(&fh->vbi);
v4l2_prio_close(&btv->prio, fh->prio);
......
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