dib8000: make 32 bits read atomic

commit 5ac64ba12aca3bef18e61c866583155a3bbf81c4 upstream.

As the dvb-frontend kthread can be called anytime, it can race
with some get status ioctl. So, it seems better to avoid one to
race with the other while reading a 32 bits register.
I can't see any other reason for having a mutex there at I2C, except
to provide such kind of protection, as the I2C core already has a
mutex to protect I2C transfers.

Note: instead of this approach, it could eventually remove the dib8000
specific mutex for it, and either group the 4 ops into one xfer or
to manually control the I2C mutex. The main advantage of the current
approach is that the changes are smaller and more puntual.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
Acked-by: Patrick Boettcher <pboettcher@kernellabs.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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