acpi: Remove sysfs_create_link from video driver
authorMatthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:46:02 +0000 (12:46 +0000)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:05:29 +0000 (13:05 -0700)
The acpi video driver attempts to explicitly create a sysfs link between
the acpi device and the associated PCI device. However, we're now also
doing this from the backlight core, which means that we get a backtrace
caused by a duplicate file. Remove the code and leave it up to the
backlight core.

Reported-by: Jeff Chua <jeff.chua.linux@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Tested-by: Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/acpi/video.c

index a18e497f1c3ca92722fd5f8bc8e36bb774d7b982..31e9e10f657eb6dda1ad9c58171ff38a523a1c34 100644 (file)
@@ -824,11 +824,6 @@ static void acpi_video_device_find_cap(struct acpi_video_device *device)
                device->backlight->props.brightness =
                                acpi_video_get_brightness(device->backlight);
 
-               result = sysfs_create_link(&device->backlight->dev.kobj,
-                                          &device->dev->dev.kobj, "device");
-               if (result)
-                       printk(KERN_ERR PREFIX "Create sysfs link\n");
-
                device->cooling_dev = thermal_cooling_device_register("LCD",
                                        device->dev, &video_cooling_ops);
                if (IS_ERR(device->cooling_dev)) {
@@ -1381,7 +1376,6 @@ static int acpi_video_bus_put_one_device(struct acpi_video_device *device)
                       "Cant remove video notify handler\n");
        }
        if (device->backlight) {
-               sysfs_remove_link(&device->backlight->dev.kobj, "device");
                backlight_device_unregister(device->backlight);
                device->backlight = NULL;
        }