hwmon: (fschmd) Drop useless mutex

As discussed one year ago, the WDIOC_GETSUPPORT ioctl only needs a
mutex because it operates on a static variable. There is no good
reason to keep this variable static, so let's just make it non-static
and drop the now useless mutex altogether.

See the discussion at:
http://marc.info/?l=lm-sensors&m=125563869402323&w=2

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Guenter Roeck <guenter.roeck@ericsson.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c b/drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c
index d4d4ca65d3716f61c21008ff1d390e54aa256e86..aa6d8b686f824af75f307cd14882bc1aaf9147e5 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/fschmd.c
@@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
 #include <linux/kref.h>
 
 /* Addresses to scan */
-static DEFINE_MUTEX(watchdog_mutex);
 static const unsigned short normal_i2c[] = { 0x73, I2C_CLIENT_END };
 
 /* Insmod parameters */
@@ -850,7 +849,7 @@ static ssize_t watchdog_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf,
 
 static long watchdog_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 {
-       static struct watchdog_info ident = {
+       struct watchdog_info ident = {
                .options = WDIOF_KEEPALIVEPING | WDIOF_SETTIMEOUT |
                                WDIOF_CARDRESET,
                .identity = "FSC watchdog"
@@ -858,7 +857,6 @@ static long watchdog_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long ar
        int i, ret = 0;
        struct fschmd_data *data = filp->private_data;
 
-       mutex_lock(&watchdog_mutex);
        switch (cmd) {
        case WDIOC_GETSUPPORT:
                ident.firmware_version = data->revision;
@@ -915,7 +913,6 @@ static long watchdog_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long ar
        default:
                ret = -ENOTTY;
        }
-       mutex_unlock(&watchdog_mutex);
        return ret;
 }