The dt3155_major variable was never exposed as a parameter so just make it
static and always allocate a dynamic major when registering the driver.
Also, remove a couple unnecessary comments and printk noise associated with
the major/minor numbers and registration.
Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Scott Smedley <ss@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c b/drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c
index 7316996..95f9f0c 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/dt3155/dt3155_drv.c
@@ -97,14 +97,7 @@ int dt3155_errno = 0;
/* wait queue for interrupts */
wait_queue_head_t dt3155_read_wait_queue[MAXBOARDS];
-/* set to dynamicaly allocate, but it is tunable: */
-/* insmod DT_3155 dt3155 dt3155_major=XX */
-int dt3155_major = 0;
-
-/* The minor numbers are 0 and 1 ... they are not tunable.
- * They are used as the indices for the structure vectors,
- * and register address vectors
- */
+static int dt3155_major;
/* Global structures and variables */
@@ -955,16 +948,9 @@ static int __init dt3155_init(void)
printk(KERN_INFO "DT3155: Loading module...\n");
/* Register the device driver */
- rcode = register_chrdev(dt3155_major, "dt3155", &dt3155_fops);
- if(rcode < 0)
- {
- printk(KERN_INFO "DT3155: register_chrdev failed \n");
- return rcode;
- }
-
- if(dt3155_major == 0)
- dt3155_major = rcode; /* dynamic */
-
+ dt3155_major = register_chrdev(0, "dt3155", &dt3155_fops);
+ if (dt3155_major < 0)
+ return dt3155_major;
/* init the status variables. */
/* DMA memory is taken care of in setup_buffers() */
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