Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (27 commits)
  Driver core: fix race in dev_driver_string
  Driver Core: Early platform driver buffer
  sysfs: sysfs_setattr remove unnecessary permission check.
  sysfs: Factor out sysfs_rename from sysfs_rename_dir and sysfs_move_dir
  sysfs: Propagate renames to the vfs on demand
  sysfs: Gut sysfs_addrm_start and sysfs_addrm_finish
  sysfs: In sysfs_chmod_file lazily propagate the mode change.
  sysfs: Implement sysfs_getattr & sysfs_permission
  sysfs: Nicely indent sysfs_symlink_inode_operations
  sysfs: Update s_iattr on link and unlink.
  sysfs: Fix locking and factor out sysfs_sd_setattr
  sysfs: Simplify iattr time assignments
  sysfs: Simplify sysfs_chmod_file semantics
  sysfs: Use dentry_ops instead of directly playing with the dcache
  sysfs: Rename sysfs_d_iput to sysfs_dentry_iput
  sysfs: Update sysfs_setxattr so it updates secdata under the sysfs_mutex
  debugfs: fix create mutex racy fops and private data
  Driver core: Don't remove kobjects in device_shutdown.
  firmware_class: make request_firmware_nowait more useful
  Driver-Core: devtmpfs - set root directory mode to 0755
  ...

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/misc/hpilo.h b/drivers/misc/hpilo.h
index 38576050776..247eb386a97 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/hpilo.h
+++ b/drivers/misc/hpilo.h
@@ -44,9 +44,20 @@ struct ilo_hwinfo {
 
 	struct pci_dev *ilo_dev;
 
+	/*
+	 * open_lock      serializes ccb_cnt during open and close
+	 * [ irq disabled ]
+	 * -> alloc_lock  used when adding/removing/searching ccb_alloc,
+	 *                which represents all ccbs open on the device
+	 * --> fifo_lock  controls access to fifo queues shared with hw
+	 *
+	 * Locks must be taken in this order, but open_lock and alloc_lock
+	 * are optional, they do not need to be held in order to take a
+	 * lower level lock.
+	 */
+	spinlock_t open_lock;
 	spinlock_t alloc_lock;
 	spinlock_t fifo_lock;
-	spinlock_t open_lock;
 
 	struct cdev cdev;
 };