driver core: remove device_create()

There are no more users of this, and it is racy.  Use
device_create_drvdata() or device_create_vargs() instead.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index be9aba4dc2fbf9e2d4e746d1841093bc31aa69b9..4dc0d272f6d91e3232551e13fb4eab3505c31fc6 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -1273,40 +1273,6 @@ struct device *device_create_drvdata(struct class *class,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_create_drvdata);
 
-/**
- * device_create - creates a device and registers it with sysfs
- * @class: pointer to the struct class that this device should be registered to
- * @parent: pointer to the parent struct device of this new device, if any
- * @devt: the dev_t for the char device to be added
- * @fmt: string for the device's name
- *
- * This function can be used by char device classes.  A struct device
- * will be created in sysfs, registered to the specified class.
- *
- * A "dev" file will be created, showing the dev_t for the device, if
- * the dev_t is not 0,0.
- * If a pointer to a parent struct device is passed in, the newly created
- * struct device will be a child of that device in sysfs.
- * The pointer to the struct device will be returned from the call.
- * Any further sysfs files that might be required can be created using this
- * pointer.
- *
- * Note: the struct class passed to this function must have previously
- * been created with a call to class_create().
- */
-struct device *device_create(struct class *class, struct device *parent,
-                            dev_t devt, const char *fmt, ...)
-{
-       va_list vargs;
-       struct device *dev;
-
-       va_start(vargs, fmt);
-       dev = device_create_vargs(class, parent, devt, NULL, fmt, vargs);
-       va_end(vargs);
-       return dev;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_create);
-
 static int __match_devt(struct device *dev, void *data)
 {
        dev_t *devt = data;

diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index e49aa74f248c52ba038b98b34077120dcd9b936d..a3ef5a2d4fbb821889b0c3dd8e79a6fb7220b109 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -470,9 +470,6 @@ extern struct device *device_create_vargs(struct class *cls,
                                          void *drvdata,
                                          const char *fmt,
                                          va_list vargs);
-extern struct device *device_create(struct class *cls, struct device *parent,
-                                   dev_t devt, const char *fmt, ...)
-                                   __attribute__((format(printf, 4, 5)));
 extern struct device *device_create_drvdata(struct class *cls,
                                            struct device *parent,
                                            dev_t devt,