Hi,

there has been (for quite some time) a bug in function driver_unregister() 
- the lock/unlock sequence is protecting nothing and the actual 
bus_remove_driver() is called outside critical section.

Please apply.

--- linux-2.6.11-rc2/drivers/base/driver.c.old  2005-01-22 02:48:48.000000000 
+0100
+++ linux-2.6.11-rc2/drivers/base/driver.c      2005-01-24 19:19:33.243501684 
+0100
@@ -106,8 +106,8 @@
 
 void driver_unregister(struct device_driver * drv)
 {
-       bus_remove_driver(drv);
        down(&drv->unload_sem);
+       bus_remove_driver(drv);
        up(&drv->unload_sem);
 }
 
-- 
JiKos.
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