patch usb-kill-dead-code-from-hub.c.patch added to gregkh-2.6 tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

     Subject: USB: kill dead code from hub.c

to my gregkh-2.6 tree.  Its filename is

     usb-kill-dead-code-from-hub.c.patch

This tree can be found at 
    http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/gregkh/gregkh-2.6/patches/


>From [email protected] Thu Mar  1 13:31:23 2007
From: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 22:31:24 +0100
Subject: USB: kill dead code from hub.c
To: [email protected], "list, USB" <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Disposition: inline

this kills residual obsoletet code from hub.c

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/usb/core/hub.c |    7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)

--- gregkh-2.6.orig/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
+++ gregkh-2.6/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
@@ -1276,12 +1276,6 @@ int usb_new_device(struct usb_device *ud
 {
 	int err;
 
-	/* Lock ourself into memory in order to keep a probe sequence
-	 * sleeping in a new thread from allowing us to be unloaded.
-	 */
-	if (!try_module_get(THIS_MODULE))
-		return -EINVAL;
-
 	/* Determine quirks */
 	usb_detect_quirks(udev);
 
@@ -1388,7 +1382,6 @@ int usb_new_device(struct usb_device *ud
 		usb_autoresume_device(udev->parent);
 
 exit:
-	module_put(THIS_MODULE);
 	return err;
 
 fail:


Patches currently in gregkh-2.6 which might be from [email protected] are


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