02 - Chages to hwmon it87 driver to use "request_muxed_region"
Serialize access to the hardware by using "request_muxed_region" macro defined
by Alan Cox. Call to this macro will hold off the requestor if the resource is
currently busy.
Signed-off-by: Nat Gurumoorthy <natg@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/it87.c b/drivers/hwmon/it87.c
index 316b648..37c8acd 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/it87.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/it87.c
@@ -111,6 +111,9 @@ superio_select(int ldn)
static inline void
superio_enter(void)
{
+ while (!request_muxed_region(REG, 2, DRVNAME)) {
+ continue;
+ }
outb(0x87, REG);
outb(0x01, REG);
outb(0x55, REG);
@@ -122,6 +125,7 @@ superio_exit(void)
{
outb(0x02, REG);
outb(0x02, VAL);
+ release_region(REG, 2);
}
/* Logical device 4 registers */
--
1.7.3.1
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