Calling synchronize_irq() right before free_irq() is quite useless. On one hand the IRQ can easily fire again before free_irq() is entered, on the other hand free_irq() itself calls synchronize_irq() internally (in a race condition free way), before any state associated with the IRQ is freed. Patch was generated using the following semantic patch: // <smpl> @@ expression irq; @@ -synchronize_irq(irq); free_irq(irq, ...); // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/pci/dm1105/dm1105.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/media/pci/dm1105/dm1105.c b/drivers/media/pci/dm1105/dm1105.c index 88915fb..5dd5047 100644 --- a/drivers/media/pci/dm1105/dm1105.c +++ b/drivers/media/pci/dm1105/dm1105.c @@ -1206,7 +1206,6 @@ static void dm1105_remove(struct pci_dev *pdev) i2c_del_adapter(&dev->i2c_adap); dm1105_hw_exit(dev); - synchronize_irq(pdev->irq); free_irq(pdev->irq, dev); pci_iounmap(pdev, dev->io_mem); pci_release_regions(pdev); -- 2.1.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
