Commit 161e232b authored by Greg Kroah-Hartman's avatar Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "driver core: refcounting fix"

This reverts commit 63ce18cf.

It was the incorrect fix and causes a reference counting bug whenever
any driver module is removed from the system. Mike Galbraith
<efault@gmx.de> is looking for the real fix for his problem.
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent a967e127
...@@ -2419,12 +2419,6 @@ void module_remove_driver(struct device_driver *drv) ...@@ -2419,12 +2419,6 @@ void module_remove_driver(struct device_driver *drv)
kfree(driver_name); kfree(driver_name);
} }
} }
/*
* Undo the additional reference we added in module_add_driver()
* via kset_find_obj()
*/
if (drv->mod_name)
kobject_put(&drv->kobj);
} }
EXPORT_SYMBOL(module_remove_driver); EXPORT_SYMBOL(module_remove_driver);
#endif #endif
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