driver model: make driver refcounting similar to devices'.
In the spirit of devices and buses, change driver refcounting model to match the way that devices and buses are done. struct device_driver gets a ->present field, which is set on registration and cleared in driver_unregister(). get_device() checks the state of this flag and returns NULL if cleared. Note that the horribly wrong remove_driver() is deprecated and simply BUG()s when called. Please convert callers to use driver_unregister(). Updates to callers will be coming soon. Note also that this still doesn't fix the race in which a driver module can be removed while the refcount on a driver > 1. Near future work should help to remedy it, but no solutions are guaranteed..
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