pcmcia: pcmcia_dev_present bugfix

pcmcia_dev_present is in and by itself buggy. Add a note specifying
why it is broken, and replace the broken locking -- taking a mutex
is a bad idea in IRQ context, from which this function is rarely
called -- by an atomic_t.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/include/pcmcia/ss.h b/include/pcmcia/ss.h
index 2e488b60bc76..344705cb42f4 100644
--- a/include/pcmcia/ss.h
+++ b/include/pcmcia/ss.h
@@ -224,18 +224,16 @@ struct pcmcia_socket {
 
         /* 16-bit state: */
         struct {
-                /* PCMCIA card is present in socket */
-                u8                      present:1;
                 /* "master" ioctl is used */
                 u8                      busy:1;
-                /* pcmcia module is being unloaded */
-                u8                      dead:1;
                 /* the PCMCIA card consists of two pseudo devices */
                 u8                      has_pfc:1;
 
-                u8                      reserved:4;
+                u8                      reserved:6;
         } pcmcia_state;
 
+        /* non-zero if PCMCIA card is present */
+        atomic_t                        present;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_PCMCIA_IOCTL
         struct user_info_t              *user;