If AUTOCOMMIT=1, do not acquire an InnoDB table lock in LOCK TABLES; this makes porting of old MyISAM applications to InnoDB easier, since in that mode InnoDB table locks caused deadlocks very easily


sql/ha_innodb.cc:
  If AUTOCOMMIT=1, do not acquire an InnoDB table lock in LOCK TABLES; this makes porting of old MyISAM applications to InnoDB easier, since in that mode InnoDB table locks caused deadlocks very easily