dev_t was passed as an argument to visorchipset_file_init() which was
storing that value in a global variable so that it can be used while
cleanup. now we are no longer using the global variable in the cleanup
so we donot need to keep the global variable anymore.
Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <su...@vectorindia.org>
---
v4: messed up the subject in v3
v3: broke the previous patch in this series
drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c | 10 ++++------
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c
b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c
index d62908d..a52939a4 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
static struct cdev file_cdev;
static struct visorchannel **file_controlvm_channel;
-static dev_t majordev = -1; /**< indicates major num for device */
static BOOL registered = FALSE;
static int visorchipset_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file);
@@ -55,21 +54,20 @@ visorchipset_file_init(dev_t major_dev, struct visorchannel
**controlvm_channel)
int rc = 0;
file_controlvm_channel = controlvm_channel;
- majordev = major_dev;
cdev_init(&file_cdev, &visorchipset_fops);
file_cdev.owner = THIS_MODULE;
- if (MAJOR(majordev) == 0) {
+ if (MAJOR(major_dev) == 0) {
/* dynamic major device number registration required */
- if (alloc_chrdev_region(&majordev, 0, 1, MYDRVNAME) < 0)
+ if (alloc_chrdev_region(&major_dev, 0, 1, MYDRVNAME) < 0)
return -1;
registered = TRUE;
} else {
/* static major device number registration required */
- if (register_chrdev_region(majordev, 1, MYDRVNAME) < 0)
+ if (register_chrdev_region(major_dev, 1, MYDRVNAME) < 0)
return -1;
registered = TRUE;
}
- rc = cdev_add(&file_cdev, MKDEV(MAJOR(majordev), 0), 1);
+ rc = cdev_add(&file_cdev, major_dev, 1);
if (rc < 0)
return -1;
return 0;
--
1.8.1.2
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