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.ja...@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de> --- 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; -- The Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. is a member of the Code Aurora Forum, a Linux Foundation Collaborative Project -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html