This stray down would cause a permanent sleep which doesn't seem correct. 
The other uses of this semaphore appear fairly mutex like it's even initialized
with init_MUTEX() ..  So here a patch for removing this one down().

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

---
 drivers/ps3/ps3-vuart.c |    1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-2.6.23/drivers/ps3/ps3-vuart.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.23.orig/drivers/ps3/ps3-vuart.c
+++ linux-2.6.23/drivers/ps3/ps3-vuart.c
@@ -1072,7 +1072,6 @@ static int ps3_vuart_probe(struct ps3_sy
        if (result) {
                dev_dbg(&dev->core, "%s:%d: drv->probe failed\n",
                        __func__, __LINE__);
-               down(&vuart_bus_priv.probe_mutex);
                goto fail_probe;
        }
 

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