driver-core: remove legacy iSeries hack
authorStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 7 Mar 2012 18:41:09 +0000 (18:41 +0000)
committerBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Thu, 8 Mar 2012 23:35:21 +0000 (10:35 +1100)
The PowerPC legacy iSeries plateform is being removed along with the
"one looney iseries driver", so this code can now be removed as well.

cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
drivers/base/driver.c
include/linux/device.h

index b631f7c59453c2a51f1ce4d65c6fec458cde51e3..db4f54c313aa21e36a5942c83be98a782ae7efba 100644 (file)
@@ -123,36 +123,6 @@ void driver_remove_file(struct device_driver *drv,
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(driver_remove_file);
 
-/**
- * driver_add_kobj - add a kobject below the specified driver
- * @drv: requesting device driver
- * @kobj: kobject to add below this driver
- * @fmt: format string that names the kobject
- *
- * You really don't want to do this, this is only here due to one looney
- * iseries driver, go poke those developers if you are annoyed about
- * this...
- */
-int driver_add_kobj(struct device_driver *drv, struct kobject *kobj,
-                   const char *fmt, ...)
-{
-       va_list args;
-       char *name;
-       int ret;
-
-       va_start(args, fmt);
-       name = kvasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, fmt, args);
-       va_end(args);
-
-       if (!name)
-               return -ENOMEM;
-
-       ret = kobject_add(kobj, &drv->p->kobj, "%s", name);
-       kfree(name);
-       return ret;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(driver_add_kobj);
-
 /**
  * get_driver - increment driver reference count.
  * @drv: driver.
index b63fb393aa58a2c6ab73bab121960be022269d65..46baa1fec34c1075b62387aaaec9558d5ef0514b 100644 (file)
@@ -264,10 +264,6 @@ extern int __must_check driver_create_file(struct device_driver *driver,
 extern void driver_remove_file(struct device_driver *driver,
                               const struct driver_attribute *attr);
 
-extern int __must_check driver_add_kobj(struct device_driver *drv,
-                                       struct kobject *kobj,
-                                       const char *fmt, ...);
-
 extern int __must_check driver_for_each_device(struct device_driver *drv,
                                               struct device *start,
                                               void *data,