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author | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2008-05-21 12:52:33 -0700 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2008-07-21 21:54:47 -0700 |
commit | ccea44fadca396b0f89aed5bdeb60e4abb212566 (patch) | |
tree | 0babd82c934836b5499ec0ed663c708592a8a6ae /drivers | |
parent | 3bfd49c8ab1859ae0f5fa1df2b3781c99115f442 (diff) |
driver core: remove device_create()
There are no more users of this, and it is racy. Use
device_create_drvdata() or device_create_vargs() instead.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/base/core.c | 34 |
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 34 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/core.c b/drivers/base/core.c index be9aba4dc2f..4dc0d272f6d 100644 --- a/drivers/base/core.c +++ b/drivers/base/core.c @@ -1273,40 +1273,6 @@ struct device *device_create_drvdata(struct class *class, } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_create_drvdata); -/** - * device_create - creates a device and registers it with sysfs - * @class: pointer to the struct class that this device should be registered to - * @parent: pointer to the parent struct device of this new device, if any - * @devt: the dev_t for the char device to be added - * @fmt: string for the device's name - * - * This function can be used by char device classes. A struct device - * will be created in sysfs, registered to the specified class. - * - * A "dev" file will be created, showing the dev_t for the device, if - * the dev_t is not 0,0. - * If a pointer to a parent struct device is passed in, the newly created - * struct device will be a child of that device in sysfs. - * The pointer to the struct device will be returned from the call. - * Any further sysfs files that might be required can be created using this - * pointer. - * - * Note: the struct class passed to this function must have previously - * been created with a call to class_create(). - */ -struct device *device_create(struct class *class, struct device *parent, - dev_t devt, const char *fmt, ...) -{ - va_list vargs; - struct device *dev; - - va_start(vargs, fmt); - dev = device_create_vargs(class, parent, devt, NULL, fmt, vargs); - va_end(vargs); - return dev; -} -EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(device_create); - static int __match_devt(struct device *dev, void *data) { dev_t *devt = data; |