From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752809AbbCXPRr (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2015 11:17:47 -0400 Received: from mail-pd0-f177.google.com ([209.85.192.177]:36093 "EHLO mail-pd0-f177.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752783AbbCXPRq (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2015 11:17:46 -0400 From: Sudip Mukherjee To: Benjamin Romer , David Kershner , Greg Kroah-Hartman Cc: sparmaintainer@unisys.com, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dan Carpenter , Sudip Mukherjee Subject: [PATCH v5 1/5] staging: unisys: remove redundant variable Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:47:26 +0530 Message-Id: <1427210250-30427-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org remove the variable "registered", which was used in the cleanup() to detect if the driver has successfully initialized. the cleanup() is called from module_exit, so its obvious that the module has successfully initialized. if the initialization had failed, then we will never be in the cleanup(). Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee --- v5: reordered the patch series v4: messed up the subject in v3 v3: broke the previous patch in series drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c | 12 +++--------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c index 9ca7f1e..b426762 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c +++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c @@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ 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); static int visorchipset_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file); @@ -62,12 +61,10 @@ visorchipset_file_init(dev_t major_dev, struct visorchannel **controlvm_channel) /* dynamic major device number registration required */ if (alloc_chrdev_region(&majordev, 0, 1, MYDRVNAME) < 0) return -1; - registered = TRUE; } else { /* static major device number registration required */ if (register_chrdev_region(majordev, 1, MYDRVNAME) < 0) return -1; - registered = TRUE; } rc = cdev_add(&file_cdev, MKDEV(MAJOR(majordev), 0), 1); if (rc < 0) @@ -81,12 +78,9 @@ visorchipset_file_cleanup(void) if (file_cdev.ops != NULL) cdev_del(&file_cdev); file_cdev.ops = NULL; - if (registered) { - if (MAJOR(majordev) >= 0) { - unregister_chrdev_region(majordev, 1); - majordev = MKDEV(0, 0); - } - registered = FALSE; + if (MAJOR(majordev) >= 0) { + unregister_chrdev_region(majordev, 1); + majordev = MKDEV(0, 0); } } -- 1.8.1.2