[PATCH] parport fixes (2/6)
We use a new mutex to protect all additions/removals of drivers and ports. That cures a lot of insanity: * driver removals can't hit us in the middle of attach_driver_chain(). Old code simply dies on that. * port removals can't hit us in the middle of driver registration. Again, old code dies on that. * driver ->detach() is allowed to block now. * we are guaranteed that by the time when parport_unregister_driver() returns, all ->detach() calls are finished. Old code did _not_ guarantee that (read: was inherently racy since rmmod of driver could race with port removal and get driver->detach(port) called after the module was gone). * we are guaranteed that driver->attach(port) won't be called more than once. With the old code that was a matter of luck. * removed piles and piles of braindead code.
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