[PATCH] uml: audio driver locking

Comment the lack of locking and make a couple of variables static.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c b/arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c
index a0d148ea63d6..f61fa0562202 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/hostaudio_kern.c
@@ -25,9 +25,12 @@ struct hostmixer_state {
 #define HOSTAUDIO_DEV_DSP "/dev/sound/dsp"
 #define HOSTAUDIO_DEV_MIXER "/dev/sound/mixer"
 
-/* Only changed from linux_main at boot time */
-char *dsp = HOSTAUDIO_DEV_DSP;
-char *mixer = HOSTAUDIO_DEV_MIXER;
+/* Changed either at boot time or module load time.  At boot, this is
+ * single-threaded; at module load, multiple modules would each have
+ * their own copy of these variables.
+ */
+static char *dsp = HOSTAUDIO_DEV_DSP;
+static char *mixer = HOSTAUDIO_DEV_MIXER;
 
 #define DSP_HELP \
 "    This is used to specify the host dsp device to the hostaudio driver.\n" \