instead of accessing to chip->dev The accesses in PCM open and close don't need the mutex protection because these are already handled in the core PCM disconnection code. The autosuspend/autoresume codes are still uncovered by this patch because of possible mutex deadlocks. They'll be covered by the upcoming change to rwsem. Also the mixer codes are untouched, too. These will be fixed in another patch, too. Reported-by: Matthieu CASTET Cc: Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai ù¥†B”"x