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Benjamin Herrenschmidt
42b16c051c [PATCH] Driver core: Don't "lose" devices on suspend on failure
I think we need this patch or we might "lose" devices to the dpm_irq_off
list if a failure occurs during the suspend process.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:37 -07:00
Maneesh Soni
8215534ce7 [PATCH] sysfs-iattr: set inode attributes
o Following patch sets the attributes for newly allocated inodes for sysfs
  objects. If the object has non-default attributes, inode attributes are
  set as saved in sysfs_dirent->s_iattr, pointer to struct iattr.

Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:37 -07:00
Maneesh Soni
988d186de5 [PATCH] sysfs-iattr: add sysfs_setattr
o This adds ->i_op->setattr VFS method for sysfs inodes. The changed
  attribues are saved in the persistent sysfs_dirent structure as a pointer
  to struct iattr. The struct iattr is allocated only for those sysfs_dirent's
  for which default attributes are getting changed. Thanks to Jon Smirl for
  this suggestion.

Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:37 -07:00
Maneesh Soni
6fa5c828c7 [PATCH] sysfs-iattr: attach sysfs_dirent before new inode
o The following patch makes sure to attach sysfs_dirent to the dentry before
  allocation a new inode through sysfs_create(). This change is done as
  preparatory work for implementing ->i_op->setattr() functionality for
  sysfs objects.

Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:36 -07:00
Yani Ioannou
050480f12a [PATCH] I2C: drivers/i2c/chips/adm1026.c: use dynamic sysfs callbacks
Finally (phew!) this patch demonstrates how to adapt the adm1026 to
take advantage of the new callbacks, and the i2c-sysfs.h defined
structure/macros. Most of the other sensor/hwmon drivers could be
updated in the same way. The odd few exceptions (bmcsensors for
example) however might be better off with their own custom attribute
structure.

Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:36 -07:00
Yani Ioannou
0a3e7eeabc [PATCH] I2C: add i2c sensor_device_attribute and macros
This patch creates a new header with a potential standard i2c sensor
attribute type (which simply includes an int representing the sensor
number/index) and the associated macros, SENSOR_DEVICE_ATTR to define
a static attribute and to_sensor_dev_attr to get a
sensor_device_attribute reference from an embedded device_attribute
reference.

Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
2005-06-20 15:15:36 -07:00
Yani Ioannou
f2d03e1b3f [PATCH] Driver Core: include: update device attribute callbacks
Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:35 -07:00
Yani Ioannou
060b8845e6 [PATCH] Driver Core: drivers/usb/input/aiptek.c - drivers/zorro/zorro-sysfs.c: update device attribute callbacks
Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:35 -07:00
Yani Ioannou
10523b3b82 [PATCH] Driver Core: drivers/s390/net/qeth_sys.c - drivers/usb/gadget/pxa2xx_udc.c: update device attribute callbacks
Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:35 -07:00
Yani Ioannou
3fd3c0a5f5 [PATCH] Driver Core: drivers/char/raw3270.c - drivers/net/netiucv.c: update device attribute callbacks
Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:34 -07:00
Yani Ioannou
e404e274f6 [PATCH] Driver Core: drivers/i2c/chips/w83781d.c - drivers/s390/block/dcssblk.c: update device attribute callbacks
Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:34 -07:00
Yani Ioannou
a5099cfc2e [PATCH] Driver Core: drivers/i2c/chips/pc87360.c - w83627hf.c: update device attribute callbacks
Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:33 -07:00
Yani Ioannou
8627f9ba53 [PATCH] Driver Core: drivers/i2c/chips/lm77.c - max1619.c: update device attribute callbacks
Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:33 -07:00
Yani Ioannou
30f74292e5 [PATCH] Driver Core: drivers/i2c/chips/adm1031.c - lm75.c: update device attribute callbacks
Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:33 -07:00
Yani Ioannou
74880c063b [PATCH] Driver Core: drivers/base - drivers/i2c/chips/adm1026.c: update device attribute callbacks
Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:32 -07:00
Yani Ioannou
ff381d2223 [PATCH] Driver Core: arch: update device attribute callbacks
Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:32 -07:00
Yani Ioannou
3eb8c7836e [PATCH] Driver core: Documentation: update device attribute callbacks
Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:32 -07:00
Yani Ioannou
54b6f35c99 [PATCH] Driver core: change device_attribute callbacks
This patch adds the device_attribute paramerter to the
device_attribute store and show sysfs callback functions, and passes a
reference to the attribute when the callbacks are called.

Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:31 -07:00
Hannes Reinecke
ca2b94ba12 [PATCH] driver core: fix error handling in bus_add_device
The error handling in bus_add_device() and device_attach() is simply
non-existing. This patch propagates any error from device_attach to
the upper layers to allow for a proper recovery.

From: Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:31 -07:00
Arnd Bergmann
acaefc25d2 [PATCH] libfs: add simple attribute files
Based on the discussion about spufs attributes, this is my suggestion
for a more generic attribute file support that can be used by both
debugfs and spufs.

Simple attribute files behave similarly to sequential files from
a kernel programmers perspective in that a standard set of file
operations is provided and only an open operation needs to
be written that registers file specific get() and set() functions.

These operations are defined as

void foo_set(void *data, u64 val); and
u64 foo_get(void *data);

where data is the inode->u.generic_ip pointer of the file and the
operations just need to make send of that pointer. The infrastructure
makes sure this works correctly with concurrent access and partial
read calls.

A macro named DEFINE_SIMPLE_ATTRIBUTE is provided to further simplify
using the attributes.

This patch already contains the changes for debugfs to use attributes
for its internal file operations.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:30 -07:00
David Brownell
4109aca06c [PATCH] Driver Core: driver model doc update
This updates some driver data documentation:

 - removes references to some fields that haven't been there for a
   long time now, e.g. pre-kobject or even older;

 - giving more information about the probe() method;

 - adding an example of how platform_data is used

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:29 -07:00
Keiichiro Tokunaga
4b45099b75 [PATCH] Driver core: unregister_node() for hotplug use
This adds a generic function 'unregister_node()'.
It is used to remove objects of a node going away
for hotplug.  All the devices on the node must be
unregistered before calling this function.

Signed-off-by: Keiichiro Tokunaga <tokunaga.keiich@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff -puN drivers/base/node.c~numa_hp_base drivers/base/node.c
2005-06-20 15:15:29 -07:00
Alan Stern
f409661877 [PATCH] usbcore: Don't call device_release_driver recursively
This patch fixes usb_driver_release_interface() to make it avoid calling
device_release_driver() recursively, i.e., when invoked from within the
disconnect routine for the same device.  The patch applies to your
"driver" tree.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:29 -07:00
Alan Stern
c95a6b057b [PATCH] driver core: Fix races in driver_detach()
This patch is intended for your "driver" tree.  It fixes several subtle
races in driver_detach() and device_release_driver() in the driver-model
core.

The major change is to use klist_remove() rather than klist_del() when
taking a device off its driver's list.  There's no other way to guarantee
that the list pointers will be updated before some other driver binds to
the device.  For this to work driver_detach() can't use a klist iterator,
so the loop over the devices must be written out in full.  In addition the
patch protects against the possibility that, when a driver and a device
are unregistered at the same time, one may be unloaded from memory before
the other is finished using it.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:28 -07:00
Patrick Mochel
6623415687 [PATCH] sn: fixes due to driver core changes
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:28 -07:00
Patrick Mochel
273971bade [PATCH] usb: klist_node_attached() fix
The original code looks like this:

        /* if interface was already added, bind now; else let
         * the future device_add() bind it, bypassing probe()
         */
        if (!list_empty (&dev->bus_list))
                device_bind_driver(dev);

IOW, it's checking to see if the device is attached to the bus or not
and binding the driver if it is. It's checking the device's bus list,
which will only appear empty when the device has been initialized, but
not added. It depends way too much on the driver model internals, but it
seems to be the only way to do the weird crap they want to do with
interfaces.

When I converted it to use klists, I accidentally inverted the logic,
which led to bad things happening. This patch returns the check to its
orginal value.

From: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Index: gregkh-2.6/drivers/usb/core/usb.c
===================================================================
2005-06-20 15:15:28 -07:00
Jason Uhlenkott
12eac738e5 [PATCH] Fix typo in scdrv_init()
Fix a typo in scdrv_init() which was breaking the build for SGI sn2.

Signed-off-by: Jason Uhlenkott <jasonuhl@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:27 -07:00
Patrick Mochel
0d3e5a2e39 [PATCH] Driver Core: fix bk-driver-core kills ppc64
There's no check to see if the device is already bound to a driver, which
could do bad things.  The first thing to go wrong is that it will try to match
a driver with a device already bound to one.  In some cases (it appears with
USB with drivers/usb/core/usb.c::usb_match_id()), some drivers will match a
device based on the class type, so it would be common (especially for HID
devices) to match a device that is already bound.

The fun comes when ->probe() is called, it fails, then
driver_probe_device() does this:

	dev->driver = NULL;

Later on, that pointer could be be dereferenced without checking and cause
hell to break loose.

This problem could be nasty. It's very hardware dependent, since some
devices could have a different set of matching qualifiers than others.

Now, I don't quite see exactly where/how you were getting that crash.
You're dereferencing bad memory, but I'm not sure which pointer was bad
and where it came from, but it could have come from a couple of different
places.

The patch below will hopefully fix it all up for you. It's against
2.6.12-rc2-mm1, and does the following:

- Move logic to driver_probe_device() and comments uncommon returns:
  1 - If device is bound
  0 - If device not bound, and no error
  error - If there was an error.

- Move locking to caller of that function, since we want to lock a
  device for the entire time we're trying to bind it to a driver (to
  prevent against a driver being loaded at the same time).

- Update __device_attach() and __driver_attach() to do that locking.

- Check if device is already bound in __driver_attach()

- Update the converse device_release_driver() so it locks the device
  around all of the operations.

- Mark driver_probe_device() as static and remove export. It's an
  internal function, it should stay that way, and there are no other
  callers. If there is ever a need to export it, we can audit it as
  necessary.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2005-06-20 15:15:27 -07:00
gregkh@suse.de
b86c1df1f9 [PATCH] Driver core: Fix up the driver and device iterators to be quieter
Also stops looping over the lists when a match is found.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de
2005-06-20 15:15:27 -07:00
long
d0e2b4a0a9 [PATCH] use device_for_each_child() to properly access child devices.
On Friday, March 25, 2005 8:47 PM Greg KH wrote:
>Here's a fix for pci express.  For some reason I don't think they are
>using the driver model properly here, but I could be wrong...

Thanks for making the changes. However, changes in functions:
void pcie_port_device_remove(struct pci_dev *dev) and
static int remove_iter(struct device *dev, void *data)
are not correct. Please use the patch, which is based on kernel
2.6.12-rc1, below for a fix for these.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:26 -07:00
gregkh@suse.de
64360322ab [PATCH] Use device_for_each_child() to unregister devices in nodemgr_remove_host_dev()
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff -Nru a/drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c b/drivers/ieee1394/nodemgr.c
2005-06-20 15:15:26 -07:00
gregkh@suse.de
ff710710ea [PATCH] USB: fix build warning in usb core as pointed out by Andrew.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Index: gregkh-2.6/drivers/usb/core/usb.c
===================================================================
2005-06-20 15:15:26 -07:00
gregkh@suse.de
126eddfbf8 [PATCH] driver core: change export symbol for driver_for_each_device()
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Index: linux-2.6.12-rc2/drivers/base/driver.c
===================================================================
2005-06-20 15:15:24 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
4d12d2d953 [PATCH] Fix up bogus comment.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff -Nru a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c
2005-06-20 15:15:23 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
36239577cf [PATCH] Use a klist for device child lists.
- Use klist iterator in device_for_each_child(), making it safe to use for
  removing devices.
- Remove unused list_to_dev() function.
- Kills all usage of devices_subsys.rwsem.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:23 -07:00
gregkh@suse.de
9a881f166f [PATCH] use device_for_each_child() to properly access child devices.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:22 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
20b1e67423 [PATCH] Use device_for_each_child() to unregister devices in scsi_remove_target().
Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Index: gregkh-2.6/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
===================================================================
2005-06-20 15:15:19 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
0293a50940 [PATCH] Don't reference NULL klist pointer in klist_remove().
Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff -Nru a/lib/klist.c b/lib/klist.c
2005-06-20 15:15:19 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
0956af53af [PATCH] Call klist_del() instead of klist_remove().
- Can't wait on removing the current item in the list (the positive refcount *because*
  we are using it causes it to deadlock).

Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:19 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
63c4f204ff [PATCH] Remove struct device::driver_list.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:18 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
7dc35cdf69 [PATCH] Remove struct device::bus_list.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:18 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
6eded061b1 [PATCH] Fix up bus code and remove use of rwsem.
- Don't add devices to bus's embedded kset, since it's not used by anyone anymore.
- Don't need to take the bus rwsem when calling {device,driver}_attach(), since
  those functions use the klists and the klists' spinlocks.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:18 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
d4a7537122 [PATCH] Fix up USB to use klist_node_attached() instead of list_empty() on lists that will go away.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Index: gregkh-2.6/drivers/usb/core/usb.c
===================================================================
2005-06-20 15:15:17 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
8b0c250be4 [PATCH] add klist_node_attached() to determine if a node is on a list or not.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff -Nru a/include/linux/klist.h b/include/linux/klist.h
2005-06-20 15:15:17 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
2287c322b6 [PATCH] Use bus_for_each_{dev,drv} for driver binding.
- Now possible, since the lists are locked using the klist lock and not the
  global rwsem.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:17 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
cb85b6f1cc [PATCH] Remove the unused device_find().
Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:16 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
94e7b1c5ff [PATCH] Add a klist to struct device_driver for the devices bound to it.
- Use it in driver_for_each_device() instead of the regular list_head and stop using
  the bus's rwsem for protection.
- Use driver_for_each_device() in driver_detach() so we don't deadlock on the
  bus's rwsem.
- Remove ->devices.
- Move klist access and sysfs link access out from under device's semaphore, since
  they're synchronized through other means.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:16 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
38fdac3cdc [PATCH] Add a klist to struct bus_type for its drivers.
- Use it in bus_for_each_drv().
- Use the klist spinlock instead of the bus rwsem.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:14 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
465c7a3a3a [PATCH] Add a klist to struct bus_type for its devices.
- Use it for bus_for_each_dev().
- Use the klist spinlock instead of the bus rwsem.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20 15:15:14 -07:00
mochel@digitalimplant.org
9a19fea436 [PATCH] Add initial implementation of klist helpers.
This klist interface provides a couple of structures that wrap around
struct list_head to provide explicit list "head" (struct klist) and
list "node" (struct klist_node) objects. For struct klist, a spinlock
is included that protects access to the actual list itself. struct
klist_node provides a pointer to the klist that owns it and a kref
reference count that indicates the number of current users of that node
in the list.

The entire point is to provide an interface for iterating over a list
that is safe and allows for modification of the list during the
iteration (e.g. insertion and removal), including modification of the
current node on the list.

It works using a 3rd object type - struct klist_iter - that is declared
and initialized before an iteration. klist_next() is used to acquire the
next element in the list. It returns NULL if there are no more items.
This klist interface provides a couple of structures that wrap around
struct list_head to provide explicit list "head" (struct klist) and
list "node" (struct klist_node) objects. For struct klist, a spinlock
is included that protects access to the actual list itself. struct
klist_node provides a pointer to the klist that owns it and a kref
reference count that indicates the number of current users of that node
in the list.

The entire point is to provide an interface for iterating over a list
that is safe and allows for modification of the list during the
iteration (e.g. insertion and removal), including modification of the
current node on the list.

It works using a 3rd object type - struct klist_iter - that is declared
and initialized before an iteration. klist_next() is used to acquire the
next element in the list. It returns NULL if there are no more items.
Internally, that routine takes the klist's lock, decrements the reference
count of the previous klist_node and increments the count of the next
klist_node. It then drops the lock and returns.

There are primitives for adding and removing nodes to/from a klist.
When deleting, klist_del() will simply decrement the reference count.
Only when the count goes to 0 is the node removed from the list.
klist_remove() will try to delete the node from the list and block
until it is actually removed. This is useful for objects (like devices)
that have been removed from the system and must be freed (but must wait
until all accessors have finished).

Internally, that routine takes the klist's lock, decrements the reference
count of the previous klist_node and increments the count of the next
klist_node. It then drops the lock and returns.

There are primitives for adding and removing nodes to/from a klist.
When deleting, klist_del() will simply decrement the reference count.
Only when the count goes to 0 is the node removed from the list.
klist_remove() will try to delete the node from the list and block
until it is actually removed. This is useful for objects (like devices)
that have been removed from the system and must be freed (but must wait
until all accessors have finished).

Signed-off-by: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff -Nru a/include/linux/klist.h b/include/linux/klist.h
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