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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-01-09 15:06:12 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-01-09 15:06:12 -0800
commit926beadb3dfaddccb3348a5b9e6c2a1f8290a220 (patch)
tree97e2005e61e33635315eb7cfc991a8952a4d38f0 /drivers/base/core.c
parente2d4077678c7ec7661003c268120582adc544897 (diff)
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/core.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/core.c8
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 5c2acf7116d..8079afca497 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,