[PATCH 2/4] nvdimm/btt: don't allocate unused major device number

From: NeilBrown
Date: Wed Mar 09 2016 - 17:05:34 EST


alloc_disk(0) does not require or use a ->major number,
all devices are allocated with a major of BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR.

So don't allocate btt_major.

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/nvdimm/btt.c | 19 ++-----------------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/btt.c b/drivers/nvdimm/btt.c
index efb2c1ceef98..c32cbb593600 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/btt.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/btt.c
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ enum log_ent_request {
LOG_OLD_ENT
};

-static int btt_major;
-
static int arena_read_bytes(struct arena_info *arena, resource_size_t offset,
void *buf, size_t n)
{
@@ -1246,7 +1244,6 @@ static int btt_blk_init(struct btt *btt)

nvdimm_namespace_disk_name(ndns, btt->btt_disk->disk_name);
btt->btt_disk->driverfs_dev = &btt->nd_btt->dev;
- btt->btt_disk->major = btt_major;
btt->btt_disk->first_minor = 0;
btt->btt_disk->fops = &btt_fops;
btt->btt_disk->private_data = btt;
@@ -1423,22 +1420,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(nvdimm_namespace_detach_btt);

static int __init nd_btt_init(void)
{
- int rc;
-
- btt_major = register_blkdev(0, "btt");
- if (btt_major < 0)
- return btt_major;
+ int rc = 0;

debugfs_root = debugfs_create_dir("btt", NULL);
- if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(debugfs_root)) {
+ if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(debugfs_root))
rc = -ENXIO;
- goto err_debugfs;
- }
-
- return 0;
-
- err_debugfs:
- unregister_blkdev(btt_major, "btt");

return rc;
}
@@ -1446,7 +1432,6 @@ static int __init nd_btt_init(void)
static void __exit nd_btt_exit(void)
{
debugfs_remove_recursive(debugfs_root);
- unregister_blkdev(btt_major, "btt");
}

MODULE_ALIAS_ND_DEVICE(ND_DEVICE_BTT);