make it atomic_long_t; while we are at it, get rid of useless checks in affs,
hfs and hpfs - ->open() always has it equal to 1, ->release() - to 0.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

device_create() is race-prone, so use the race-free
device_create_drvdata() instead as device_create() is going away.

Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Conflicts:

	Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt
	drivers/atm/Makefile
	drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
	drivers/pci/pci-acpi.c
	net/8021q/vlan.c
	net/iucv/iucv.c

All of the open() functions which don't need the BKL on their face may
still depend on its acquisition to serialize opens against driver
initialization.  So make those functions acquire then release the BKL to be
on the safe side.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

This documents the fact that somebody looked at the relevant open()
functions and concluded that, due to their trivial nature, no locking was
needed.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

I've pushed it down as far as I dare at this point. Someone familiar with
the internal PPP semantics can probably push it further. Another step to
eliminating the old BKL ioctl usage.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

An error path in ppp_create_interface() lacks one and may
BUG in free_netdev() checking for proper dev->reg_state.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Use stats which now is in the net_device instead of one declared in
ppp structure.
Kill ppp_net_stats function, because by default it is used identical
internal_stats function from net/core/dev.c

Signed-of-by: Paulius Zaleckas <paulius.zaleckas@teltonika.lt>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

Fix a bunch of warnings in PPP and related drivers. Mostly because
sparse doesn't like it when the the function is only marked private in
the forward declaration.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

fix sparse warnings "Using plain integer as NULL pointer"

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>