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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-01-09 15:06:12 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-01-09 15:06:12 -0800
commit926beadb3dfaddccb3348a5b9e6c2a1f8290a220 (patch)
tree97e2005e61e33635315eb7cfc991a8952a4d38f0 /drivers/base
parente2d4077678c7ec7661003c268120582adc544897 (diff)
downloadlinux-926beadb3dfaddccb3348a5b9e6c2a1f8290a220.tar.gz
Revert "driver core: create a private portion of struct device"
This reverts commit 2831fe6f9cc4e16c103504ee09a47a084297c0f3.

Turns out that device_initialize shouldn't fail silently.
This series needs to be reworked in order to get into proper
shape.

Reported-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/base.h12
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/core.c8
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/base.h b/drivers/base/base.h
index 6b20809b5fd4..0a5f055dffba 100644
--- a/drivers/base/base.h
+++ b/drivers/base/base.h
@@ -63,18 +63,6 @@ struct class_private {
 #define to_class(obj)	\
 	container_of(obj, struct class_private, class_subsys.kobj)
 
-/**
- * struct device_private - structure to hold the private to the driver core portions of the device structure.
- *
- * @device - pointer back to the struct class that this structure is
- * associated with.
- *
- * Nothing outside of the driver core should ever touch these fields.
- */
-struct device_private {
-	struct device *device;
-};
-
 /* initialisation functions */
 extern int devices_init(void);
 extern int buses_init(void);
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c
index 5c2acf7116d7..8079afca4972 100644
--- a/drivers/base/core.c
+++ b/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -109,7 +109,6 @@ static struct sysfs_ops dev_sysfs_ops = {
 static void device_release(struct kobject *kobj)
 {
 	struct device *dev = to_dev(kobj);
-	struct device_private *p = dev->p;
 
 	if (dev->release)
 		dev->release(dev);
@@ -121,7 +120,6 @@ static void device_release(struct kobject *kobj)
 		WARN(1, KERN_ERR "Device '%s' does not have a release() "
 			"function, it is broken and must be fixed.\n",
 			dev_name(dev));
-	kfree(p);
 }
 
 static struct kobj_type device_ktype = {
@@ -538,12 +536,6 @@ static void klist_children_put(struct klist_node *n)
  */
 void device_initialize(struct device *dev)
 {
-	dev->p = kzalloc(sizeof(*dev->p), GFP_KERNEL);
-	if (!dev->p) {
-		WARN_ON(1);
-		return;
-	}
-	dev->p->device = dev;
 	dev->kobj.kset = devices_kset;
 	kobject_init(&dev->kobj, &device_ktype);
 	klist_init(&dev->klist_children, klist_children_get,