There is no need to have the 'struct dentry *dev_state' variable static since new value always be assigned before use it. Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@xxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/x86/platform/atom/punit_atom_debug.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/atom/punit_atom_debug.c b/arch/x86/platform/atom/punit_atom_debug.c index 41dae0f..6cb6076 100644 --- a/arch/x86/platform/atom/punit_atom_debug.c +++ b/arch/x86/platform/atom/punit_atom_debug.c @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static int punit_dev_state_show(struct seq_file *seq_file, void *unused) static int punit_dbgfs_register(struct punit_device *punit_device) { - static struct dentry *dev_state; + struct dentry *dev_state; punit_dbg_file = debugfs_create_dir("punit_atom", NULL); if (!punit_dbg_file)