From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Chiang Subject: [PATCH v4 3/6] ACPI: dock: remove global 'dock_device_name' Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:14:35 -0600 Message-ID: <20091019211434.5412.13924.stgit@bob.kio> References: <20091019211132.5412.80438.stgit@bob.kio> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from g1t0027.austin.hp.com ([15.216.28.34]:16021 "EHLO g1t0027.austin.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757806AbZJSVOv (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:14:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20091019211132.5412.80438.stgit@bob.kio> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: =shaohua.li@intel.com, lenb@kernel.org Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org We only use it in one spot, so it probably gets optimized out, but there's still no need to use a global variable for this. Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang --- drivers/acpi/dock.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/dock.c b/drivers/acpi/dock.c index 347ea98..45bdff7 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/dock.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/dock.c @@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(immediate_undock, "1 (default) will cause the driver to " " before undocking"); static struct atomic_notifier_head dock_notifier_list; -static char dock_device_name[] = "dock"; static const struct acpi_device_id dock_device_ids[] = { {"LNXDOCK", 0}, @@ -964,7 +963,7 @@ static int dock_add(acpi_handle handle) /* initialize platform device stuff */ dock_station->dock_device = - platform_device_register_simple(dock_device_name, + platform_device_register_simple("dock", dock_station_count, NULL, 0); dock_device = dock_station->dock_device; if (IS_ERR(dock_device)) {