This legacy driver does no additional probing so the dev->board_name will already be properly initialized by the comedi core before calling the (*attach) function. Remove the unnecessary initialization of dev->board_name and use it when requesting the resources instead of the open-coded strings. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ian Abbott <abbotti@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_at_ao.c | 4 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_at_ao.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_at_ao.c index 907f65c..be4e1e1 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_at_ao.c +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_at_ao.c @@ -348,14 +348,12 @@ static int atao_attach(struct comedi_device *dev, struct comedi_devconfig *it) printk(KERN_INFO "comedi%d: ni_at_ao: 0x%04lx", dev->minor, iobase); - if (!request_region(iobase, ATAO_SIZE, "ni_at_ao")) { + if (!request_region(iobase, ATAO_SIZE, dev->board_name)) { printk(" I/O port conflict\n"); return -EIO; } dev->iobase = iobase; - dev->board_name = board->name; - devpriv = kzalloc(sizeof(*devpriv), GFP_KERNEL); if (!devpriv) return -ENOMEM; -- 1.8.1.4 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel