From ccea44fadca396b0f89aed5bdeb60e4abb212566 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 12:52:33 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- drivers/base/core.c | 34 ---------------------------------- include/linux/device.h | 3 --- 2 files changed, 37 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index be9aba4dc2f..4dc0d272f6d 100644 --- 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 e49aa74f248..a3ef5a2d4fb 100644 --- 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, -- 2.20.1