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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:53:42 +0000
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] hwmon: (w83793) Drop useless mutex
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On Monday 29 November 2010, Jean Delvare wrote:
> This is the same case as fschmd, from which the code was copied as far
> as I can see. So the same clean-up applies:
> 
> 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&m5563869402323&w=2
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

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