We have less than a handful of elevators, and if someone adds a duplicate
one it simply will never be found but other be harmless.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
block/elevator.c | 6 ------
1 file changed, 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/elevator.c b/block/elevator.c
index d26aa787e29f0..ef9af17293ffb 100644
--- a/block/elevator.c
+++ b/block/elevator.c
@@ -545,13 +545,7 @@ int elv_register(struct elevator_type *e)
return -ENOMEM;
}
- /* register, don't allow duplicate names */
spin_lock(&elv_list_lock);
- if (elevator_find(e->elevator_name, 0)) {
- spin_unlock(&elv_list_lock);
- kmem_cache_destroy(e->icq_cache);
- return -EBUSY;
- }
list_add_tail(&e->list, &elv_list);
spin_unlock(&elv_list_lock);
--
2.30.2
