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driver core: do not wait unnecessarily in driver_unregister()

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Ingo reported that built-in drivers suffered bootup hangs with certain
driver unregistry sequences, due to sysfs breakage.

Do the minimal fix for v2.6.21: only wait if the driver is a module.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Linus Torvalds 2007-04-01 10:54:13 -07:00
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commit f5ef2abcbe
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@ -183,7 +183,14 @@ int driver_register(struct device_driver * drv)
void driver_unregister(struct device_driver * drv)
{
bus_remove_driver(drv);
wait_for_completion(&drv->unloaded);
/*
* If the driver is a module, we are probably in
* the module unload path, and we want to wait
* for everything to unload before we can actually
* finish the unload.
*/
if (drv->owner)
wait_for_completion(&drv->unloaded);
}
/**