Greg KH
2005-06-30T06:10:31Z

[PATCH] Driver core: Use klist_del() instead of klist_remove().

Use klist_del() instead of klist_remove() when unregistering devices.
This will prevent a deadlock when executing a recursive unregister using
device_for_each_child().

Signed-off-by Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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commit d62c0f9fd2d3943a3eca85b490d86e1605000ccb
tree c9fc174992f7746f680becdeaa1bdb6924108c0f
parent 23d3d602cb96addd3c1158424fb01a49ea5e81b1
author Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org> Fri, 24 Jun 2005 08:39:33 -0700
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Wed, 29 Jun 2005 22:48:05 -0700

drivers/base/core.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -333,7 +333,7 @@ void device_del(struct device * dev)
struct device * parent = dev->parent;

if (parent)
- klist_remove(&dev->knode_parent);
+ klist_del(&dev->knode_parent);

/* Notify the platform of the removal, in case they
* need to do anything...