[media] gspca: Update / fix various comments wrt workqueue usb_lock usage
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/gspca/finepix.c b/drivers/media/usb/gspca/finepix.c
index fb68a29..52bdb56 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/gspca/finepix.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/gspca/finepix.c
@@ -77,7 +77,14 @@
12, FPIX_TIMEOUT);
}
-/* workqueue */
+/*
+ * This function is called as a workqueue function and runs whenever the camera
+ * is streaming data. Because it is a workqueue function it is allowed to sleep
+ * so we can use synchronous USB calls. To avoid possible collisions with other
+ * threads attempting to use gspca_dev->usb_buf we take the usb_lock when
+ * performing USB operations using it. In practice we don't really need this
+ * as the camera doesn't provide any controls.
+ */
static void dostream(struct work_struct *work)
{
struct usb_fpix *dev = container_of(work, struct usb_fpix, work_struct);