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| author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-01-10 00:06:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2009-01-10 00:06:12 +0100 |
| commit | 926beadb3dfaddccb3348a5b9e6c2a1f8290a220 (patch) | |
| tree | 97e2005e61e33635315eb7cfc991a8952a4d38f0 /drivers/base | |
| parent | Revert "driver core: move klist_children into private structure" (diff) | |
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Revert "driver core: create a private portion of struct device"
This reverts commit 2831fe6f9cc4e16c103504ee09a47a084297c0f3.
Turns out that device_initialize shouldn't fail silently.
This series needs to be reworked in order to get into proper
shape.
Reported-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/base.h | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/core.c | 8 |
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/base.h b/drivers/base/base.h index 6b20809b5fd4..0a5f055dffba 100644 --- a/drivers/base/base.h +++ b/drivers/base/base.h @@ -63,18 +63,6 @@ struct class_private { #define to_class(obj) \ container_of(obj, struct class_private, class_subsys.kobj) -/** - * struct device_private - structure to hold the private to the driver core portions of the device structure. - * - * @device - pointer back to the struct class that this structure is - * associated with. - * - * Nothing outside of the driver core should ever touch these fields. - */ -struct device_private { - struct device *device; -}; - /* initialisation functions */ extern int devices_init(void); extern int buses_init(void); diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index 5c2acf7116d7..8079afca4972 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ static struct sysfs_ops dev_sysfs_ops = { static void device_release(struct kobject *kobj) { struct device *dev = to_dev(kobj); - struct device_private *p = dev->p; if (dev->release) dev->release(dev); @@ -121,7 +120,6 @@ static void device_release(struct kobject *kobj) WARN(1, KERN_ERR "Device '%s' does not have a release() " "function, it is broken and must be fixed.\n", dev_name(dev)); - kfree(p); } static struct kobj_type device_ktype = { @@ -538,12 +536,6 @@ static void klist_children_put(struct klist_node *n) */ void device_initialize(struct device *dev) { - dev->p = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev->p), GFP_KERNEL); - if (!dev->p) { - WARN_ON(1); - return; - } - dev->p->device = dev; dev->kobj.kset = devices_kset; kobject_init(&dev->kobj, &device_ktype); klist_init(&dev->klist_children, klist_children_get, |