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authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>2016-08-02 14:03:30 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2016-08-02 17:31:41 -0400
commitca945e71529c69f71b773b31f03a681876872117 (patch)
treef57abccf8cc1055194d9df9c46560ad60d124734 /drivers/memstick
parentbc083a64b6c035135c0f80718f9e9192cc0867c6 (diff)
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memstick: don't allocate unused major for ms_block
When alloc_disk(0) is used the ->major number is completely ignored. All devices are allocated with a major of BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR. So remove registration and deregistration of 'major'. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160602064318.4403.49955.stgit@noble Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com> Cc: Keith Busch <keith.busch@intel.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@fb.com> Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/memstick')
-rw-r--r--drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c17
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c b/drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c
index 40bb8ae5853c..aacf584f2a42 100644
--- a/drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c
+++ b/drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c
@@ -2338,23 +2338,11 @@ static struct memstick_driver msb_driver = {
.resume = msb_resume
};
-static int major;
-
static int __init msb_init(void)
{
- int rc = register_blkdev(0, DRIVER_NAME);
-
- if (rc < 0) {
- pr_err("failed to register major (error %d)\n", rc);
- return rc;
- }
-
- major = rc;
- rc = memstick_register_driver(&msb_driver);
- if (rc) {
- unregister_blkdev(major, DRIVER_NAME);
+ int rc = memstick_register_driver(&msb_driver);
+ if (rc)
pr_err("failed to register memstick driver (error %d)\n", rc);
- }
return rc;
}
@@ -2362,7 +2350,6 @@ static int __init msb_init(void)
static void __exit msb_exit(void)
{
memstick_unregister_driver(&msb_driver);
- unregister_blkdev(major, DRIVER_NAME);
idr_destroy(&msb_disk_idr);
}