Commit db36587d authored by Mike Waychison's avatar Mike Waychison Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

[PATCH] driver core: clean driver unload

Get rid of semaphore abuse by converting device_driver->unload_sem
semaphore to device_driver->unloaded completion.

This should get rid of any confusion as well as save a few bytes in the
process.
Signed-off-by: default avatarMike Waychison <michael.waychison@sun.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 67642d35
......@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ static struct sysfs_ops driver_sysfs_ops = {
static void driver_release(struct kobject * kobj)
{
struct device_driver * drv = to_driver(kobj);
up(&drv->unload_sem);
complete(&drv->unloaded);
}
static struct kobj_type ktype_driver = {
......
......@@ -79,14 +79,14 @@ void put_driver(struct device_driver * drv)
* since most of the things we have to do deal with the bus
* structures.
*
* The one interesting aspect is that we initialize @drv->unload_sem
* to a locked state here. It will be unlocked when the driver
* reference count reaches 0.
* The one interesting aspect is that we setup @drv->unloaded
* as a completion that gets complete when the driver reference
* count reaches 0.
*/
int driver_register(struct device_driver * drv)
{
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&drv->devices);
init_MUTEX_LOCKED(&drv->unload_sem);
init_completion(&drv->unloaded);
return bus_add_driver(drv);
}
......@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ int driver_register(struct device_driver * drv)
*
* Again, we pass off most of the work to the bus-level call.
*
* Though, once that is done, we attempt to take @drv->unload_sem.
* Though, once that is done, we wait until @drv->unloaded is completed.
* This will block until the driver refcount reaches 0, and it is
* released. Only modular drivers will call this function, and we
* have to guarantee that it won't complete, letting the driver
......@@ -107,8 +107,7 @@ int driver_register(struct device_driver * drv)
void driver_unregister(struct device_driver * drv)
{
bus_remove_driver(drv);
down(&drv->unload_sem);
up(&drv->unload_sem);
wait_for_completion(&drv->unloaded);
}
/**
......
......@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ struct device_driver {
char * name;
struct bus_type * bus;
struct semaphore unload_sem;
struct completion unloaded;
struct kobject kobj;
struct list_head devices;
......
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