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authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>2019-06-25 23:03:58 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2019-06-26 05:28:09 +0300
commitffed60971f3d95923b99ea970862c6ab6a22c20f (patch)
tree295db5fee660d10d63a36be83f17f434bc0bc58c /drivers/usb/core/usb.h
parent58ee01007c9e00531c1280b2d99b49d29a5e9844 (diff)
downloadlinux-ffed60971f3d95923b99ea970862c6ab6a22c20f.tar.xz
USB: core: Remove usbfs_mutex
Commit 4a2a8a2cce86 ("usbfs: private mutex for open, release, and remove") is now obsolete. The commit was created back when we had to handle both usbfs device nodes and the old usbdevfs filesystem (/proc/bus/usb/), but usbdevfs no longer exists. This means there's no longer any need to hold a mutex during two separate removal operations (and thus during an entire notifier chain call). Furthermore, the one remaining remove/release pair doesn't race with open thanks to the synchronization provided by the device model core in bus_find_device(). Remove and release don't race with each other because they both run with the device lock held. The upshot is that usbfs_mutex isn't needed any more. This patch removes it entirely. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb/core/usb.h')
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/core/usb.h1
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/usb.h b/drivers/usb/core/usb.h
index d95a5358f73d..bd8d01f85a13 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/usb.h
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/usb.h
@@ -169,7 +169,6 @@ extern const struct attribute_group *usb_device_groups[];
extern const struct attribute_group *usb_interface_groups[];
/* usbfs stuff */
-extern struct mutex usbfs_mutex;
extern struct usb_driver usbfs_driver;
extern const struct file_operations usbfs_devices_fops;
extern const struct file_operations usbdev_file_operations;