From 8853c202b4a91713dbfb4d9b6e1c87cc2aa12392 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 16:22:03 -0800
Subject: RTC: convert mutex to bitfield

RTC code is using mutex to assure exclusive access to /dev/rtc.  This is
however wrong usage, as it leaves the mutex locked when returning into
userspace, which is unacceptable.

Convert rtc->char_lock into bit operation.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 include/linux/rtc.h | 5 ++++-
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'include/linux/rtc.h')

diff --git a/include/linux/rtc.h b/include/linux/rtc.h
index 6d5e4a46781..f2d0d152772 100644
--- a/include/linux/rtc.h
+++ b/include/linux/rtc.h
@@ -133,6 +133,9 @@ struct rtc_class_ops {
 #define RTC_DEVICE_NAME_SIZE 20
 struct rtc_task;
 
+/* flags */
+#define RTC_DEV_BUSY 0
+
 struct rtc_device
 {
 	struct device dev;
@@ -145,7 +148,7 @@ struct rtc_device
 	struct mutex ops_lock;
 
 	struct cdev char_dev;
-	struct mutex char_lock;
+	unsigned long flags;
 
 	unsigned long irq_data;
 	spinlock_t irq_lock;
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