The following patch is from Montavista.  I modified it slightly.
Semaphores are currently being used where it makes more sense for
completions.  This patch corrects that.

-- Steve

Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>

Source: MontaVista Software, Inc.
Signed-off-by: Aleksey Makarov <amakarov@ru.mvista.com>
Description:
	The patch changes semaphores that are initialized as 
	locked to complete().

 drivers/ide/ide-probe.c |    4 ++--
 drivers/ide/ide.c       |    8 ++++----
 include/linux/ide.h     |    5 +++--
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

Index: linux/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
+++ linux/drivers/ide/ide-probe.c
@@ -655,7 +655,7 @@ static void hwif_release_dev (struct dev
 {
 	ide_hwif_t *hwif = container_of(dev, ide_hwif_t, gendev);
 
-	up(&hwif->gendev_rel_sem);
+	complete(&hwif->gendev_rel_comp);
 }
 
 static void hwif_register (ide_hwif_t *hwif)
@@ -1325,7 +1325,7 @@ static void drive_release_dev (struct de
 	drive->queue = NULL;
 	spin_unlock_irq(&ide_lock);
 
-	up(&drive->gendev_rel_sem);
+	complete(&drive->gendev_rel_comp);
 }
 
 /*
Index: linux/drivers/ide/ide.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/drivers/ide/ide.c
+++ linux/drivers/ide/ide.c
@@ -222,7 +222,7 @@ static void init_hwif_data(ide_hwif_t *h
 	hwif->mwdma_mask = 0x80;	/* disable all mwdma */
 	hwif->swdma_mask = 0x80;	/* disable all swdma */
 
-	sema_init(&hwif->gendev_rel_sem, 0);
+	init_completion(&hwif->gendev_rel_comp);
 
 	default_hwif_iops(hwif);
 	default_hwif_transport(hwif);
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ static void init_hwif_data(ide_hwif_t *h
 		drive->is_flash			= 0;
 		drive->vdma			= 0;
 		INIT_LIST_HEAD(&drive->list);
-		sema_init(&drive->gendev_rel_sem, 0);
+		init_completion(&drive->gendev_rel_comp);
 	}
 }
 
@@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ void ide_unregister(unsigned int index)
 		}
 		spin_unlock_irq(&ide_lock);
 		device_unregister(&drive->gendev);
-		down(&drive->gendev_rel_sem);
+		wait_for_completion(&drive->gendev_rel_comp);
 		spin_lock_irq(&ide_lock);
 	}
 	hwif->present = 0;
@@ -662,7 +662,7 @@ void ide_unregister(unsigned int index)
 	/* More messed up locking ... */
 	spin_unlock_irq(&ide_lock);
 	device_unregister(&hwif->gendev);
-	down(&hwif->gendev_rel_sem);
+	wait_for_completion(&hwif->gendev_rel_comp);
 
 	/*
 	 * Remove us from the kernel's knowledge
Index: linux/include/linux/ide.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/linux/ide.h
+++ linux/include/linux/ide.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <linux/bio.h>
 #include <linux/device.h>
 #include <linux/pci.h>
+#include <linux/completion.h>
 #include <asm/byteorder.h>
 #include <asm/system.h>
 #include <asm/io.h>
@@ -759,7 +760,7 @@ typedef struct ide_drive_s {
 	int		crc_count;	/* crc counter to reduce drive speed */
 	struct list_head list;
 	struct device	gendev;
-	struct semaphore gendev_rel_sem;	/* to deal with device release() */
+	struct completion gendev_rel_comp;	/* to deal with device release() */
 } ide_drive_t;
 
 #define to_ide_device(dev)container_of(dev, ide_drive_t, gendev)
@@ -915,7 +916,7 @@ typedef struct hwif_s {
 	unsigned	sg_mapped  : 1;	/* sg_table and sg_nents are ready */
 
 	struct device	gendev;
-	struct semaphore gendev_rel_sem; /* To deal with device release() */
+	struct completion gendev_rel_comp; /* To deal with device release() */
 
 	void		*hwif_data;	/* extra hwif data */