The semaphore 'close_exit_sync' does not serve any purpose other
than delaying the deregistration of the device which it is trying
to protect from shared access. 'up' is called only when a subdevice
is closed and not when it is opened. So, the semaphore count only
goes up when the device is used.
Signed-off-by: Binoy Jayan <binoy.jayan@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
        .notifier_call = dev_state_ev_handler
 };
 
-static struct semaphore close_exit_sync;
-
 static int wlan_deinit_locks(struct net_device *dev);
 static void wlan_deinitialize_threads(struct net_device *dev);
 
                WILC_WFI_deinit_mon_interface();
        }
 
-       up(&close_exit_sync);
        vif->mac_opened = 0;
 
        return 0;
        }
 
        if (wilc && (wilc->vif[0]->ndev || wilc->vif[1]->ndev)) {
-               wilc_lock_timeout(wilc, &close_exit_sync, 5 * 1000);
-
                for (i = 0; i < NUM_CONCURRENT_IFC; i++)
                        if (wilc->vif[i]->ndev)
                                if (vif[i]->mac_opened)
        struct net_device *ndev;
        struct wilc *wl;
 
-       sema_init(&close_exit_sync, 0);
-
        wl = kzalloc(sizeof(*wl), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!wl)
                return -ENOMEM;