Re: [PATCH v2 2/4] staging: unisys: dev_t initialization

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Mon Mar 16 2015 - 11:36:23 EST


On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 11:00:10PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> dev_t is defined to be of unsigned int type, no use initializing
> it to -1.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: it was not in v1
>
> drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c
> index 9ca7f1e..e9459af 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c
> @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
>
> static struct cdev file_cdev;
> static struct visorchannel **file_controlvm_channel;
> -static dev_t majordev = -1; /**< indicates major num for device */
> +static dev_t majordev; /**< indicates major num for device */

I don't like this, please fix this up to handle the major number
properly, no need for this -1 mess. And you just broke the logic with
this change, which isn't allowed in any patch, sorry.

greg k-h
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