diff -urN -X /usr/share/dontdiff /linux.vanilla/fs/driverfs/inode.c /linux/fs/driverfs/inode.c
--- /linux.vanilla/fs/driverfs/inode.c	Sun Feb 17 15:15:57 2002
+++ /linux/fs/driverfs/inode.c	Sat Feb 23 22:42:38 2002
@@ -698,11 +698,9 @@
 static void __remove_file(struct dentry * dentry)
 {
 	dget(dentry);
-	down(&dentry->d_inode->i_sem);
 
 	vfs_unlink(dentry->d_parent->d_inode,dentry);
 
-	up(&dentry->d_inode->i_sem);
 	dput(dentry);
 
 	/* remove reference count from when file was created */
@@ -766,7 +764,6 @@
 	dentry = dget(dir->dentry);
 	dget(dentry->d_parent);
 	down(&dentry->d_parent->d_inode->i_sem);
-	down(&dentry->d_inode->i_sem);
 
 	node = dir->files.next;
 	while (node != &dir->files) {
@@ -782,7 +779,6 @@
 
 	vfs_rmdir(dentry->d_parent->d_inode,dentry);
 	up(&dentry->d_parent->d_inode->i_sem);
-	up(&dentry->d_inode->i_sem);
 
 	/* remove reference count from when directory was created */
 	dput(dentry);