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-rw-r--r--drivers/base/driver.c9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c
index 1214cbd17d86..082bfded3854 100644
--- a/drivers/base/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/base/driver.c
@@ -183,7 +183,14 @@ int driver_register(struct device_driver * drv)
void driver_unregister(struct device_driver * drv)
{
bus_remove_driver(drv);
- wait_for_completion(&drv->unloaded);
+ /*
+ * If the driver is a module, we are probably in
+ * the module unload path, and we want to wait
+ * for everything to unload before we can actually
+ * finish the unload.
+ */
+ if (drv->owner)
+ wait_for_completion(&drv->unloaded);
}
/**