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authorViresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>2017-03-17 12:24:22 +0530
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2017-04-08 18:27:39 +0200
commit35dbf4efb044fbe4096a5edbb449e894aca9ef50 (patch)
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driver core: don't initialize 'parent' in device_add()
'parent' is always overwritten before getting used and there is no need to initialize it with NULL. Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/core.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 6bb60fb6a30b..bbecaf9293be 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -1607,7 +1607,7 @@ int device_private_init(struct device *dev)
*/
int device_add(struct device *dev)
{
- struct device *parent = NULL;
+ struct device *parent;
struct kobject *kobj;
struct class_interface *class_intf;
int error = -EINVAL;