From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752906AbbCXPSA (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2015 11:18:00 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f53.google.com ([209.85.220.53]:33543 "EHLO mail-pa0-f53.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752874AbbCXPR4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Mar 2015 11:17:56 -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 4/5] staging: unisys: remove global dev_t Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 20:47:29 +0530 Message-Id: <1427210250-30427-4-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.1.2 In-Reply-To: <1427210250-30427-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> References: <1427210250-30427-1-git-send-email-sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org the global variable majordev is no longer required, as it is not being used anywhere. 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 | 3 --- 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c index 257cfdd..890869a 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 int visorchipset_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file); static int visorchipset_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file); @@ -54,7 +53,6 @@ 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(major_dev) == 0) { @@ -80,7 +78,6 @@ visorchipset_file_cleanup(dev_t major_dev) file_cdev.ops = NULL; if (MAJOR(major_dev) >= 0) { unregister_chrdev_region(major_dev, 1); - majordev = MKDEV(0, 0); } } -- 1.8.1.2