[PATCH 2/2] NVMe: don't allocate unused nvme_major

From: NeilBrown
Date: Thu Jun 02 2016 - 02:44:24 EST


When alloc_disk(0) is used, the ->major number is ignored. All device
numbers are allocated with a major of BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR.

So remove all references to nvme_major.

Reviewed-by: Keith Busch <keith.busch@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/nvme/host/core.c | 15 +--------------
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 14 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
index 1a51584a382b..238b8863f9ab 100644
--- a/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
+++ b/drivers/nvme/host/core.c
@@ -47,9 +47,6 @@ unsigned char shutdown_timeout = 5;
module_param(shutdown_timeout, byte, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(shutdown_timeout, "timeout in seconds for controller shutdown");

-static int nvme_major;
-module_param(nvme_major, int, 0);
-
static int nvme_char_major;
module_param(nvme_char_major, int, 0);

@@ -1445,8 +1442,6 @@ static void nvme_alloc_ns(struct nvme_ctrl *ctrl, unsigned nsid)
blk_queue_logical_block_size(ns->queue, 1 << ns->lba_shift);
nvme_set_queue_limits(ctrl, ns->queue);

- disk->major = nvme_major;
- disk->first_minor = 0;
disk->fops = &nvme_fops;
disk->private_data = ns;
disk->queue = ns->queue;
@@ -1848,16 +1843,10 @@ int __init nvme_core_init(void)
{
int result;

- result = register_blkdev(nvme_major, "nvme");
- if (result < 0)
- return result;
- else if (result > 0)
- nvme_major = result;
-
result = __register_chrdev(nvme_char_major, 0, NVME_MINORS, "nvme",
&nvme_dev_fops);
if (result < 0)
- goto unregister_blkdev;
+ return result;
else if (result > 0)
nvme_char_major = result;

@@ -1871,8 +1860,6 @@ int __init nvme_core_init(void)

unregister_chrdev:
__unregister_chrdev(nvme_char_major, 0, NVME_MINORS, "nvme");
- unregister_blkdev:
- unregister_blkdev(nvme_major, "nvme");
return result;
}