i2c: mux: relax locking of the top i2c adapter during mux-locked muxing
With a i2c topology like the following GPIO ---| ------ BAT1 | v / I2C -----+----------+---- MUX | \ EEPROM ------ BAT2 there is a locking problem with the GPIO controller since it is a client on the same i2c bus that it muxes. Transfers to the mux clients (e.g. BAT1) will lock the whole i2c bus prior to attempting to switch the mux to the correct i2c segment. In the above case, the GPIO device is an I/O expander with an i2c interface, and since the GPIO subsystem knows nothing (and rightfully so) about the lockless needs of the i2c mux code, this results in a deadlock when the GPIO driver issues i2c transfers to modify the mux. So, observing that while it is needed to have the i2c bus locked during the actual MUX update in order to avoid random garbage on the slave side, it is not strictly a must to have it locked ove...
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