Hi Mauro,

On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 09:04:02AM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote:
> Right now, the lock schema for media_device struct is messy,
> since sometimes, it is protected via a spin lock, while, for
> media graph traversal, it is protected by a mutex.
> 
> Solve this conflict by always using a mutex.
> 
> As a side effect, this prevents a bug where the media notifiers
> were called at atomic context.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>

The scope of mdev->lock isn't much, really. I think this is fine, no need to
create another mutex.

Acked-by: Sakari Ailus <[email protected]>

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