memstick: don't allocate unused major for ms_block
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Tue, 2 Aug 2016 21:03:30 +0000 (14:03 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 2 Aug 2016 21:31:41 +0000 (17:31 -0400)
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>
drivers/memstick/core/ms_block.c

index 40bb8ae5853c7f5b8c8b0f74db57463a6bfa72df..aacf584f2a42ed763ec6c4fcb8c0155e47d395c8 100644 (file)
@@ -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);
 }