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SubjectRe: [PATCH] fix bad locking in drivers/base/driver.c
* Jirka Kosina (jikos@jikos.cz) wrote:
> there has been (for quite some time) a bug in function driver_unregister()
> - the lock/unlock sequence is protecting nothing and the actual
> bus_remove_driver() is called outside critical section.

Re-read the comment. It's intentionally done that way.

thanks,
-chris
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