[PATCH] remove unneeded inode semaphores from driverfs

From: Andrey Panin (pazke@orbita1.ru)
Date: Tue Feb 26 2002 - 03:59:46 EST

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Hi,

__remove_file() in driverfs/inode.c calls down(&dentry->d_inode->i_sem)
before calling vfs_unlink(dentry->d_parent->d_inode,dentry) which
tries to claim the same semaphore causing the livelock.
driverfs_remove_dir() makes the same calling vfs_rmdir().

These bugs are triggered by driverfs for IDE patch by Pavel Machek.

Best regards.

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