+ driver-core-remove-device_is_registered-in.patch added to -mm tree

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The patch titled
     driver core: remove device_is_registered() in device_move()
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     driver-core-remove-device_is_registered-in.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: driver core: remove device_is_registered() in device_move()
From: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx>

device_is_registered() will always be false for a device with no bus.  Remove
this check and trust the caller to know what they're doing.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---

 drivers/base/core.c |    4 ----
 1 files changed, 4 deletions(-)

diff -puN drivers/base/core.c~driver-core-remove-device_is_registered-in drivers/base/core.c
--- a/drivers/base/core.c~driver-core-remove-device_is_registered-in
+++ a/drivers/base/core.c
@@ -1007,10 +1007,6 @@ int device_move(struct device *dev, stru
 	if (!dev)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
-	if (!device_is_registered(dev)) {
-		error = -EINVAL;
-		goto out;
-	}
 	new_parent = get_device(new_parent);
 	if (!new_parent) {
 		error = -EINVAL;
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from cornelia.huck@xxxxxxxxxx are

driver-core-per-subsystem-multithreaded-probing.patch
driver-core-dont-fail-attaching-the-device-if-it.patch
driver-core-remove-device_is_registered-in.patch
driver-core-allow-device_movedev-null.patch

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