The dgnc_Major_Control_Registered variable purpose was to act as a flag to indicate if the character device has been successfully registered into the kernel. This flag was later checked in the module cleanup function to know if the character device needs to be deregistered. However the {device,class}_destroy and unregister_chrdev functions may be called with 'invalid' data perfectly fine. This means that this variable is not needed and can safely be removed which is what this commit does. Signed-off-by: Konrad Zapalowicz <bergo.torino@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c | 38 +++++++++++++++----------------------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c index 726b5dd..a9f1a8c 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c +++ b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c @@ -96,8 +96,6 @@ int dgnc_poll_tick = 20; /* Poll interval - 20 ms */ /* * Static vars. */ -static uint dgnc_Major_Control_Registered = FALSE; - static struct class *dgnc_class; /* @@ -197,11 +195,9 @@ static void dgnc_cleanup_module(void) dgnc_remove_driver_sysfiles(&dgnc_driver); - if (dgnc_Major_Control_Registered) { - device_destroy(dgnc_class, MKDEV(dgnc_Major, 0)); - class_destroy(dgnc_class); - unregister_chrdev(dgnc_Major, "dgnc"); - } + device_destroy(dgnc_class, MKDEV(dgnc_Major, 0)); + class_destroy(dgnc_class); + unregister_chrdev(dgnc_Major, "dgnc"); for (i = 0; i < dgnc_NumBoards; ++i) { dgnc_remove_ports_sysfiles(dgnc_Board[i]); @@ -278,24 +274,20 @@ static int dgnc_start(void) * Register our base character device into the kernel. * This allows the download daemon to connect to the downld device * before any of the boards are init'ed. + * + * Register management/dpa devices */ - if (!dgnc_Major_Control_Registered) { - /* - * Register management/dpa devices - */ - rc = register_chrdev(0, "dgnc", &dgnc_BoardFops); - if (rc <= 0) { - APR(("Can't register dgnc driver device (%d)\n", rc)); - return -ENXIO; - } - dgnc_Major = rc; - - dgnc_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "dgnc_mgmt"); - device_create(dgnc_class, NULL, - MKDEV(dgnc_Major, 0), - NULL, "dgnc_mgmt"); - dgnc_Major_Control_Registered = TRUE; + rc = register_chrdev(0, "dgnc", &dgnc_BoardFops); + if (rc <= 0) { + APR(("Can't register dgnc driver device (%d)\n", rc)); + return -ENXIO; } + dgnc_Major = rc; + + dgnc_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "dgnc_mgmt"); + device_create(dgnc_class, NULL, + MKDEV(dgnc_Major, 0), + NULL, "dgnc_mgmt"); /* * Init any global tty stuff. -- 1.8.1.2 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel