From foo@baz Tue Apr 9 12:12:43 2002 Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:52:31 -0400 (EDT) To: Greg KH From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: PNP: stop using the subsystem rwsem The rwsem is not used to protect anything, so the use of it by the PNP subsystem isn't really useful, and it's doubtful if it really did anything or not. So I've removed it. Cc: Adam Belay Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/pnp/card.c | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/pnp/card.c +++ b/drivers/pnp/card.c @@ -311,7 +311,6 @@ done: return NULL; found: - down_write(&dev->dev.bus->subsys.rwsem); dev->card_link = clink; dev->dev.driver = &drv->link.driver; if (pnp_bus_type.probe(&dev->dev)) @@ -319,14 +318,11 @@ found: if (device_bind_driver(&dev->dev)) goto err_out; - up_write(&dev->dev.bus->subsys.rwsem); - return dev; err_out: dev->dev.driver = NULL; dev->card_link = NULL; - up_write(&dev->dev.bus->subsys.rwsem); return NULL; } @@ -340,11 +336,9 @@ void pnp_release_card_device(struct pnp_ struct pnp_card_driver * drv = dev->card_link->driver; if (!drv) return; - down_write(&dev->dev.bus->subsys.rwsem); drv->link.remove = &card_remove; device_release_driver(&dev->dev); drv->link.remove = &card_remove_first; - up_write(&dev->dev.bus->subsys.rwsem); } /*