Thank you Mr. Torokhov for applying patch !! :) As suggested, I will check for more places which count from 0 and send a patch soon. I apologize for pinging little often and will not follow the same next time. Regards, Aniroop Mathur On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 03:29:23PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 10:15:29PM +0530, Aniroop Mathur wrote: > > This patch initializes input_no by -1 in order to avoid extra subtraction > > operation performed everytime for allocation of an input device. > > > > Signed-off-by: Aniroop Mathur > > Applied, thank you. > > By the way, we have a few more places in drivers/input that count from 0, we > may want to change them as well. Also, for patches of such nature (non urgent) there is no need to ping me so often. Thanks. > > > --- > > drivers/input/input.c | 4 ++-- > > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/drivers/input/input.c b/drivers/input/input.c > > index 29ca0bb..01fe49e 100644 > > --- a/drivers/input/input.c > > +++ b/drivers/input/input.c > > @@ -1774,7 +1774,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(input_class); > > */ > > struct input_dev *input_allocate_device(void) > > { > > - static atomic_t input_no = ATOMIC_INIT(0); > > + static atomic_t input_no = ATOMIC_INIT(-1); > > struct input_dev *dev; > > > > dev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct input_dev), GFP_KERNEL); > > @@ -1789,7 +1789,7 @@ struct input_dev *input_allocate_device(void) > > INIT_LIST_HEAD(&dev->node); > > > > dev_set_name(&dev->dev, "input%ld", > > - (unsigned long) atomic_inc_return(&input_no) - 1); > > + (unsigned long) atomic_inc_return(&input_no)); > > > > __module_get(THIS_MODULE); > > } > > -- > > 1.9.1 > > > > Thanks. > > -- > Dmitry -- Dmitryÿôèº{.nÇ+‰·Ÿ®‰†+%ŠËÿ±éݶ¥Šwÿº{.nÇ+‰·¥Š{±þ)éºßâžØ^n‡r¡ö¦zË?ëh™¨èÚ&£ûàz¿äz¹Þ—ú+€Ê+zf£¢·hšˆ§~††Ûiÿÿï?êÿ‘êçz_è®æj:+v‰¨þ)ߣøm