commit c4f28e54d61278203c2bb2aea0679e0a738235d2
author Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Mon Feb 12 00:55:11 2007 -0800
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> Mon Feb 12 09:48:42 2007 -0800
tree d92cf0718084a4e659444741443ee38afb847836
parent 52e7c922f37907ab3cf3445b916fbbc53cbd6c75

[PATCH] Video: fb, add true ref_count atomicity

Some of fb drivers uses atomic_t in bad manner, since there are still some
race-prone gaps.  Use mutexes to protect open/close code sections with
ref_count testing and finally use simple uint.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Denis Oliver Kropp <dok@directfb.org>
Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>