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hwmon: (nct6775) Drop read/write lock

The read/write lock is acquired for each read/write operation from/to the chip.
This occurs either during initialization, when it is not needed, or during
updates, when the update_lock is held as well, and it is not needed either.

Signed-off-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>
Guenter Roeck 12 years ago
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1 changed files with 0 additions and 10 deletions
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      drivers/hwmon/nct6775.c

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drivers/hwmon/nct6775.c

@@ -554,7 +554,6 @@ struct nct6775_data {
 	const char *name;
 
 	struct device *hwmon_dev;
-	struct mutex lock;
 
 	u16 reg_temp[4][NUM_TEMP]; /* 0=temp, 1=temp_over, 2=temp_hyst,
 				    * 3=temp_crit
@@ -745,8 +744,6 @@ static u16 nct6775_read_value(struct nct6775_data *data, u16 reg)
 {
 	int res, word_sized = is_word_sized(data, reg);
 
-	mutex_lock(&data->lock);
-
 	nct6775_set_bank(data, reg);
 	outb_p(reg & 0xff, data->addr + ADDR_REG_OFFSET);
 	res = inb_p(data->addr + DATA_REG_OFFSET);
@@ -755,8 +752,6 @@ static u16 nct6775_read_value(struct nct6775_data *data, u16 reg)
 		       data->addr + ADDR_REG_OFFSET);
 		res = (res << 8) + inb_p(data->addr + DATA_REG_OFFSET);
 	}
-
-	mutex_unlock(&data->lock);
 	return res;
 }
 
@@ -764,8 +759,6 @@ static int nct6775_write_value(struct nct6775_data *data, u16 reg, u16 value)
 {
 	int word_sized = is_word_sized(data, reg);
 
-	mutex_lock(&data->lock);
-
 	nct6775_set_bank(data, reg);
 	outb_p(reg & 0xff, data->addr + ADDR_REG_OFFSET);
 	if (word_sized) {
@@ -774,8 +767,6 @@ static int nct6775_write_value(struct nct6775_data *data, u16 reg, u16 value)
 		       data->addr + ADDR_REG_OFFSET);
 	}
 	outb_p(value & 0xff, data->addr + DATA_REG_OFFSET);
-
-	mutex_unlock(&data->lock);
 	return 0;
 }
 
@@ -3416,7 +3407,6 @@ static int nct6775_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 
 	data->kind = sio_data->kind;
 	data->addr = res->start;
-	mutex_init(&data->lock);
 	mutex_init(&data->update_lock);
 	data->name = nct6775_device_names[data->kind];
 	data->bank = 0xff;		/* Force initial bank selection */