From: Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de>
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2019 20:25:08 +0200

> The KSZ driver uses one regmap per register width (8/16/32), each with
> it's own lock, but accessing the same set of registers. In theory, it
> is possible to create a race condition between these regmaps, although
> the underlying bus (SPI or I2C) locking should assure nothing bad will
> really happen and the accesses would be correct.
> 
> To make the driver do the right thing, add one single shared mutex for
> all the regmaps used by the driver instead. This assures that even if
> some future hardware is on a bus which does not serialize the accesses
> the same way SPI or I2C does, nothing bad will happen.
> 
> Note that the status_mutex was unused and only initied, hence it was
> renamed and repurposed as the regmap mutex.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <ma...@denx.de>

Applied.

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