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[POWERPC] Remove linux,device properties
authorJeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Tue, 4 Jul 2006 06:44:46 +0000 (16:44 +1000)
committerPaul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Fri, 7 Jul 2006 10:19:16 +0000 (20:19 +1000)
The linux,device property isn't used anywhere within the kernel, and
since it's a kernel pointer, it's a little useless for userspace.

This change removes the code to create this property in
of_device_register.

Built for pmac32.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
arch/powerpc/kernel/of_device.c

index 3262b73a3a6898e926e33b5f3d97e97c3943e684..397c83eda20ee3ac907c929e526bf59510b7b5f1 100644 (file)
@@ -189,27 +189,9 @@ void of_release_dev(struct device *dev)
 int of_device_register(struct of_device *ofdev)
 {
        int rc;
-       struct of_device **odprop;
 
        BUG_ON(ofdev->node == NULL);
 
-       odprop = (struct of_device **)get_property(ofdev->node, "linux,device", NULL);
-       if (!odprop) {
-               struct property *new_prop;
-       
-               new_prop = kmalloc(sizeof(struct property) + sizeof(struct of_device *),
-                       GFP_KERNEL);
-               if (new_prop == NULL)
-                       return -ENOMEM;
-               new_prop->name = "linux,device";
-               new_prop->length = sizeof(sizeof(struct of_device *));
-               new_prop->value = (unsigned char *)&new_prop[1];
-               odprop = (struct of_device **)new_prop->value;
-               *odprop = NULL;
-               prom_add_property(ofdev->node, new_prop);
-       }
-       *odprop = ofdev;
-
        rc = device_register(&ofdev->dev);
        if (rc)
                return rc;
@@ -221,14 +203,8 @@ int of_device_register(struct of_device *ofdev)
 
 void of_device_unregister(struct of_device *ofdev)
 {
-       struct of_device **odprop;
-
        device_remove_file(&ofdev->dev, &dev_attr_devspec);
 
-       odprop = (struct of_device **)get_property(ofdev->node, "linux,device", NULL);
-       if (odprop)
-               *odprop = NULL;
-
        device_unregister(&ofdev->dev);
 }