Re: [PATCH] remove unneeded inode semaphores from driverfs

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2002 at 11:59:46AM +0300, Andrey Panin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> __remove_file() in driverfs/inode.c calls down(&dentry->d_inode->i_sem)
> before calling vfs_unlink(dentry->d_parent->d_inode,dentry) which 
> tries to claim the same semaphore causing the livelock.
> driverfs_remove_dir() makes the same calling vfs_rmdir().

What kernel version did you generate this patch for?  This patch doesn't
apply at all to 2.5.5, and it looks like this problem is already fixed.

thanks,

greg k-h