diff --git a/drivers/base/dd.c b/drivers/base/dd.c
index dcb8a6e48692..4b01ab3d2c24 100644
--- a/drivers/base/dd.c
+++ b/drivers/base/dd.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 #include <linux/wait.h>
 #include <linux/async.h>
 #include <linux/pm_runtime.h>
+#include <scsi/scsi_scan.h>
 
 #include "base.h"
 #include "power/power.h"
@@ -332,6 +333,7 @@ void wait_for_device_probe(void)
 	/* wait for the known devices to complete their probing */
 	wait_event(probe_waitqueue, atomic_read(&probe_count) == 0);
 	async_synchronize_full();
+	scsi_complete_async_scans();
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wait_for_device_probe);
 
diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.c
index ae7814874618..072734538876 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_wait_scan.c
@@ -22,11 +22,6 @@ static int __init wait_scan_init(void)
 	 * and might not yet have reached the scsi async scanning
 	 */
 	wait_for_device_probe();
-	/*
-	 * and then we wait for the actual asynchronous scsi scan
-	 * to finish.
-	 */
-	scsi_complete_async_scans();
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index 161d96241b1b..6de94151ff6f 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -865,8 +865,6 @@ extern int (*platform_notify_remove)(struct device *dev);
 extern struct device *get_device(struct device *dev);
 extern void put_device(struct device *dev);
 
-extern void wait_for_device_probe(void);
-
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEVTMPFS
 extern int devtmpfs_create_node(struct device *dev);
 extern int devtmpfs_delete_node(struct device *dev);
diff --git a/kernel/power/hibernate.c b/kernel/power/hibernate.c
index 8b53db38a279..238025f5472e 100644
--- a/kernel/power/hibernate.c
+++ b/kernel/power/hibernate.c
@@ -27,7 +27,6 @@
 #include <linux/syscore_ops.h>
 #include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <linux/genhd.h>
-#include <scsi/scsi_scan.h>
 
 #include "power.h"
 
@@ -748,13 +747,6 @@ static int software_resume(void)
 			async_synchronize_full();
 		}
 
-		/*
-		 * We can't depend on SCSI devices being available after loading
-		 * one of their modules until scsi_complete_async_scans() is
-		 * called and the resume device usually is a SCSI one.
-		 */
-		scsi_complete_async_scans();
-
 		swsusp_resume_device = name_to_dev_t(resume_file);
 		if (!swsusp_resume_device) {
 			error = -ENODEV;
diff --git a/kernel/power/user.c b/kernel/power/user.c
index 91b0fd021a95..4ed81e74f86f 100644
--- a/kernel/power/user.c
+++ b/kernel/power/user.c
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 #include <linux/console.h>
 #include <linux/cpu.h>
 #include <linux/freezer.h>
-#include <scsi/scsi_scan.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
 
@@ -84,7 +83,6 @@ static int snapshot_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 		 * appear.
 		 */
 		wait_for_device_probe();
-		scsi_complete_async_scans();
 
 		data->swap = -1;
 		data->mode = O_WRONLY;