We only use it in one spot, so it probably gets optimized out, but there's still no need to use a global variable for this. Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@xxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/dock.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/dock.c b/drivers/acpi/dock.c index 10cf833..e57be55 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/dock.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/dock.c @@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(immediate_undock, "1 (default) will cause the driver to " " before undocking"); static struct atomic_notifier_head dock_notifier_list; -static char dock_device_name[] = "dock"; static const struct acpi_device_id dock_device_ids[] = { {"LNXDOCK", 0}, @@ -951,7 +950,7 @@ static int dock_add(acpi_handle handle) /* initialize platform device stuff */ dock_station->dock_device = - platform_device_register_simple(dock_device_name, + platform_device_register_simple("dock", dock_station_count, NULL, 0); dock_device = dock_station->dock_device; ret = IS_ERR(dock_device) ? PTR_ERR(dock_device) : 0; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html