The semaphore 'close_exit_sync' does not serve any purpose other
than delaying the deregistration of the device which it is trying
to protect from shared access. 'up' is called only when a subdevice
is closed and not when it is opened. So, the semaphore count only
goes up when the device is used.
Signed-off-by: Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c | 7 -------
1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
index 39fe350..f87a30f 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ static struct notifier_block g_dev_notifier = {
.notifier_call = dev_state_ev_handler
};
-static struct semaphore close_exit_sync;
-
static int wlan_deinit_locks(struct net_device *dev);
static void wlan_deinitialize_threads(struct net_device *dev);
@@ -1088,7 +1086,6 @@ int wilc_mac_close(struct net_device *ndev)
WILC_WFI_deinit_mon_interface();
}
- up(&close_exit_sync);
vif->mac_opened = 0;
return 0;
@@ -1232,8 +1229,6 @@ void wilc_netdev_cleanup(struct wilc *wilc)
}
if (wilc && (wilc->vif[0]->ndev || wilc->vif[1]->ndev)) {
- wilc_lock_timeout(wilc, &close_exit_sync, 5 * 1000);
-
for (i = 0; i < NUM_CONCURRENT_IFC; i++)
if (wilc->vif[i]->ndev)
if (vif[i]->mac_opened)
@@ -1258,8 +1253,6 @@ int wilc_netdev_init(struct wilc **wilc, struct device *dev, int io_type,
struct net_device *ndev;
struct wilc *wl;
- sema_init(&close_exit_sync, 0);
-
wl = kzalloc(sizeof(*wl), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!wl)
return -ENOMEM;
--
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