driver core: do not wait unnecessarily in driver_unregister()
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>
diff --git a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c
index 1214cbd..082bfde 100644
--- a/drivers/base/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/base/driver.c
@@ -183,7 +183,14 @@
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);
}
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