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authorJim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>2006-06-27 02:54:25 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-06-27 17:32:43 -0700
commit8bcf6135c3e8cdfab375f4041a48721483519eee (patch)
tree06658c8beb4a8e0e3808ca962fced3166a0eb22b /drivers/char
parent6cad56fd884b7eb85ae193c94b688fe76680fcbf (diff)
[PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: replace spinlocks w mutexes
Replace spinlocks guarding gpio config ops with mutexes. This is a me-too patch, and is justifiable insofar as mutexes have stricter semantics and better debugging support, so are preferred where they are applicable. Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c b/drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c
index b8183d508332..72dcf222f141 100644
--- a/drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c
+++ b/drivers/char/pc8736x_gpio.c
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/init.h>
#include <linux/ioport.h>
+#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/nsc_gpio.h>
#include <linux/platform_device.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -31,7 +32,7 @@ static int major; /* default to dynamic major */
module_param(major, int, 0);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(major, "Major device number");
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(pc8736x_gpio_config_lock);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(pc8736x_gpio_config_lock);
static unsigned pc8736x_gpio_base;
static u8 pc8736x_gpio_shadow[4];
@@ -119,9 +120,8 @@ static inline u32 pc8736x_gpio_configure_fn(unsigned index, u32 mask, u32 bits,
u32 func_slct)
{
u32 config, new_config;
- unsigned long flags;
- spin_lock_irqsave(&pc8736x_gpio_config_lock, flags);
+ mutex_lock(&pc8736x_gpio_config_lock);
device_select(SIO_GPIO_UNIT);
select_pin(index);
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ static inline u32 pc8736x_gpio_configure_fn(unsigned index, u32 mask, u32 bits,
new_config = (config & mask) | bits;
superio_outb(func_slct, new_config);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pc8736x_gpio_config_lock, flags);
+ mutex_unlock(&pc8736x_gpio_config_lock);
return config;
}