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authorManohar Vanga <manohar.vanga@cern.ch>2011-09-01 11:15:24 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-09-09 13:26:32 -0700
commitf6c39d4f2d350df049a844b658eb6b08c5833e51 (patch)
tree3496f6bffafffe081246da0bdcdf0ed9204ac1bd /drivers/staging/vme
parent2192e60654c2b91de45dce44a23723f725603ce1 (diff)
staging: vme: change static device array to pointers
Change the static array of 'struct device''s in struct vme_bridge to instead use an array of pointers. This is in accordance with the requirement that all kobjects be dynamically allocated (see Documentation/kobject.txt) and never be statically allocated. Signed-off-by: Manohar Vanga <manohar.vanga@cern.ch> Acked-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@ge.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/vme')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/vme/vme.c21
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/vme/vme_bridge.h2
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/vme/vme.c b/drivers/staging/vme/vme.c
index b2968f8588f..63a8fa2ebc0 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vme/vme.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/vme/vme.c
@@ -1338,6 +1338,11 @@ static void vme_remove_bus(struct vme_bridge *bridge)
mutex_unlock(&vme_buses_lock);
}
+static void vme_dev_release(struct device *dev)
+{
+ kfree(dev);
+}
+
int vme_register_bridge(struct vme_bridge *bridge)
{
struct device *dev;
@@ -1353,11 +1358,17 @@ int vme_register_bridge(struct vme_bridge *bridge)
* specification.
*/
for (i = 0; i < VME_SLOTS_MAX; i++) {
- dev = &bridge->dev[i];
+ bridge->dev[i] = kzalloc(sizeof(struct device), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!bridge->dev[i]) {
+ retval = -ENOMEM;
+ goto err_devalloc;
+ }
+ dev = bridge->dev[i];
memset(dev, 0, sizeof(struct device));
dev->parent = bridge->parent;
dev->bus = &vme_bus_type;
+ dev->release = vme_dev_release;
/*
* We save a pointer to the bridge in platform_data so that we
* can get to it later. We keep driver_data for use by the
@@ -1374,8 +1385,10 @@ int vme_register_bridge(struct vme_bridge *bridge)
return retval;
err_reg:
+ kfree(dev);
+err_devalloc:
while (--i >= 0) {
- dev = &bridge->dev[i];
+ dev = bridge->dev[i];
device_unregister(dev);
}
vme_remove_bus(bridge);
@@ -1390,7 +1403,7 @@ void vme_unregister_bridge(struct vme_bridge *bridge)
for (i = 0; i < VME_SLOTS_MAX; i++) {
- dev = &bridge->dev[i];
+ dev = bridge->dev[i];
device_unregister(dev);
}
vme_remove_bus(bridge);
@@ -1427,7 +1440,7 @@ static int vme_calc_slot(struct device *dev)
/* Determine slot number */
num = 0;
while (num < VME_SLOTS_MAX) {
- if (&bridge->dev[num] == dev)
+ if (bridge->dev[num] == dev)
break;
num++;
diff --git a/drivers/staging/vme/vme_bridge.h b/drivers/staging/vme/vme_bridge.h
index 89596705829..4b8566eb7e3 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/vme/vme_bridge.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/vme/vme_bridge.h
@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ struct vme_bridge {
void *driver_priv; /* Private pointer for the bridge driver */
struct list_head bus_list; /* list of VME buses */
- struct device dev[VME_SLOTS_MAX]; /* Device registered with
+ struct device *dev[VME_SLOTS_MAX]; /* Device registered with
* device model on VME bus
*/