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authorSudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>2015-03-24 20:47:27 +0530
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-03-27 00:01:23 +0100
commita1191146c9a6ebc0e15ef50788bd392339510c0d (patch)
tree8efe2e45170e92bb25cdeb8897b0324720a2e58c /drivers/staging
parent61986f730eb83912ac4a0c59b671232bdee07c40 (diff)
staging: unisys: use local variable
we are getting dev_t as an argument in the function, so use the local variable instead of the global variable "majordev". this global variable will be removed in one of the next patch of the series. Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org> Reviewed-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Romer <benjamin.romer@unisys.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c8
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c
index b426762665be..6ebe7f733ba4 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visorchipset/file.c
@@ -57,16 +57,16 @@ visorchipset_file_init(dev_t major_dev, struct visorchannel **controlvm_channel)
majordev = major_dev;
cdev_init(&file_cdev, &visorchipset_fops);
file_cdev.owner = THIS_MODULE;
- if (MAJOR(majordev) == 0) {
+ if (MAJOR(major_dev) == 0) {
/* dynamic major device number registration required */
- if (alloc_chrdev_region(&majordev, 0, 1, MYDRVNAME) < 0)
+ if (alloc_chrdev_region(&major_dev, 0, 1, MYDRVNAME) < 0)
return -1;
} else {
/* static major device number registration required */
- if (register_chrdev_region(majordev, 1, MYDRVNAME) < 0)
+ if (register_chrdev_region(major_dev, 1, MYDRVNAME) < 0)
return -1;
}
- rc = cdev_add(&file_cdev, MKDEV(MAJOR(majordev), 0), 1);
+ rc = cdev_add(&file_cdev, MKDEV(MAJOR(major_dev), 0), 1);
if (rc < 0)
return -1;
return 0;