nvdimm/blk: don't allocate unused major device number
authorNeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Wed, 9 Mar 2016 21:59:28 +0000 (08:59 +1100)
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Wed, 9 Mar 2016 22:59:41 +0000 (14:59 -0800)
When alloc_disk(0) is used ->major is completely ignored, all devices
are allocated with a "major" of BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR.

So don't allocate nd_blk_major

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
drivers/nvdimm/blk.c

index 91a336e..e9ff922 100644 (file)
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ struct nd_blk_device {
        u32 internal_lbasize;
 };
 
-static int nd_blk_major;
-
 static u32 nd_blk_meta_size(struct nd_blk_device *blk_dev)
 {
        return blk_dev->nsblk->lbasize - blk_dev->sector_size;
@@ -264,7 +262,6 @@ static int nd_blk_attach_disk(struct nd_namespace_common *ndns,
        }
 
        disk->driverfs_dev      = &ndns->dev;
-       disk->major             = nd_blk_major;
        disk->first_minor       = 0;
        disk->fops              = &nd_blk_fops;
        disk->private_data      = blk_dev;
@@ -358,25 +355,12 @@ static struct nd_device_driver nd_blk_driver = {
 
 static int __init nd_blk_init(void)
 {
-       int rc;
-
-       rc = register_blkdev(0, "nd_blk");
-       if (rc < 0)
-               return rc;
-
-       nd_blk_major = rc;
-       rc = nd_driver_register(&nd_blk_driver);
-
-       if (rc < 0)
-               unregister_blkdev(nd_blk_major, "nd_blk");
-
-       return rc;
+       return nd_driver_register(&nd_blk_driver);
 }
 
 static void __exit nd_blk_exit(void)
 {
        driver_unregister(&nd_blk_driver.drv);
-       unregister_blkdev(nd_blk_major, "nd_blk");
 }
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>");