The patch titled
Remove superfluous call to call to cdev_del()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
remove-superfluous-call-to-call-to-cdev_del.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: Remove superfluous call to call to cdev_del()
From: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
If cdev_add() fails there is no good reason to call cdev_del().
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c | 1 -
1 files changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c~remove-superfluous-call-to-call-to-cdev_del drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c~remove-superfluous-call-to-call-to-cdev_del
+++ a/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
@@ -406,7 +406,6 @@ static int rtc_dev_add_device(struct cla
rtc->char_dev.owner = rtc->owner;
if (cdev_add(&rtc->char_dev, MKDEV(MAJOR(rtc_devt), rtc->id), 1)) {
- cdev_del(&rtc->char_dev);
dev_err(class_dev->dev,
"failed to add char device %d:%d\n",
MAJOR(rtc_devt), rtc->id);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx are
add-kerneldocs-for-some-functions-in-mm-memoryc.patch
use-bug_onfoo-instead-of-if-foo-bug-in-include-asm-i386-dma-mappingh.patch
include-documentation-for-functions-in-drivers-base-classc.patch
fix-parameter-names-in-drivers-base-classc.patch
fix-kerneldoc-comments-in-kernel-timerc.patch
fix-kerneldoc-comments-in-kernel-timerc-fix.patch
move-valid_dma_direction-from-x86_64-to-generic-code.patch
move-valid_dma_direction-from-x86_64-to-generic-code-fix.patch
use-valid_dma_direction-in-include-asm-i386-dma-mappingh.patch
cdev-documentation-was-drop-second-arg-of-unregister_chrdev.patch
return-better-error-codes-if-drivers-char-rawc-module-init-fails.patch
remove-superfluous-call-to-call-to-cdev_del.patch
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