driver/phy-rwsem-removal.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: PHY: remove rwsem use from phy core

The subsystem rwsem is not used by the driver core at all, so the use of
it in the phy code doesn't make any sense.  They might possibly
want to use a local lock, but I am unsure about that.

Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
 drivers/net/phy/fixed.c      |    6 ------
 drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c |    9 +--------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/phy/fixed.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/fixed.c
@@ -276,21 +276,15 @@ static int fixed_mdio_register_device(in
 	   artificially, we are binding the driver here by hand;
 	   it will be the same for all the fixed phys anyway.
 	 */
-	down_write(&phydev->dev.bus->subsys.rwsem);
-
 	phydev->dev.driver = &fixed_mdio_driver.driver;
 
 	err = phydev->dev.driver->probe(&phydev->dev);
 	if(err < 0) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "Phy %s: problems with fixed driver\n",phydev->dev.bus_id);
-		up_write(&phydev->dev.bus->subsys.rwsem);
 		goto probe_fail;
 	}
 
 	err = device_bind_driver(&phydev->dev);
-
-	up_write(&phydev->dev.bus->subsys.rwsem);
-
 	if (err)
 		goto probe_fail;
 
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy_device.c
@@ -208,16 +208,12 @@ struct phy_device *phy_attach(struct net
 	 * exist, and we should use the genphy driver. */
 	if (NULL == d->driver) {
 		int err;
-		down_write(&d->bus->subsys.rwsem);
 		d->driver = &genphy_driver.driver;
 
 		err = d->driver->probe(d);
-
 		if (err >= 0)
 			err = device_bind_driver(d);
 
-		up_write(&d->bus->subsys.rwsem);
-
 		if (err)
 			return ERR_PTR(err);
 	}
@@ -258,11 +254,8 @@ void phy_detach(struct phy_device *phyde
 	 * was using the generic driver), we unbind the device
 	 * from the generic driver so that there's a chance a
 	 * real driver could be loaded */
-	if (phydev->dev.driver == &genphy_driver.driver) {
-		down_write(&phydev->dev.bus->subsys.rwsem);
+	if (phydev->dev.driver == &genphy_driver.driver)
 		device_release_driver(&phydev->dev);
-		up_write(&phydev->dev.bus->subsys.rwsem);
-	}
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(phy_detach);