miscdevice: Add helper macro for misc device boilerplate

Many modules call misc_register and misc_deregister in its module init
and exit methods without any additional code. This ends up being
boilerplate. This patch adds helper macro module_misc_device(), that
replaces module_init()/ module_exit() with template functions.

This patch also converts drivers to use new macro.

Change since v1:
Add device.h include in miscdevice.h as module_driver macro was not
available from other include files in some architectures.

Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c b/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c
index 65ebbd111702..92595b98e7ed 100644
--- a/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c
+++ b/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c
@@ -1013,23 +1013,12 @@ static struct miscdevice uinput_misc = {
 	.minor		= UINPUT_MINOR,
 	.name		= UINPUT_NAME,
 };
+module_misc_device(uinput_misc);
+
 MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(UINPUT_MINOR);
 MODULE_ALIAS("devname:" UINPUT_NAME);
 
-static int __init uinput_init(void)
-{
-	return misc_register(&uinput_misc);
-}
-
-static void __exit uinput_exit(void)
-{
-	misc_deregister(&uinput_misc);
-}
-
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("User level driver support for input subsystem");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_VERSION("0.3");
-
-module_init(uinput_init);
-module_exit(uinput_exit);