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[v3,5/5] staging: wilc1000: Remove semaphore close_exit_sync

Message ID 1465968638-22129-6-git-send-email-binoy.jayan@linaro.org
State New
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Binoy Jayan June 15, 2016, 5:30 a.m. UTC 
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@linaro.org>

Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

---
 drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

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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;