driver/pnp-remove-rwsem-usage.patch

From foo@baz Tue Apr  9 12:12:43 2002
Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2007 11:52:31 -0400 (EDT)
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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 <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 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);
 }
 
 /*