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From: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
To: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RTC] Remove superfluous call to call to cdev_del()
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:46:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200609210946.06924.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> (raw)

If cdev_add() fails there is no good reason to call cdev_del().

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>

---
commit 7d8c15d5af591c6039a4bba6ab20e4952ed11c1f
tree 8849441bf17c6c8145f09123a320c34572746c7c
parent 10e3d9d489c71aaf7ff86c81178ae5aeefe1ad6f
author Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:42:49 +0200
committer Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Thu, 21 Sep 2006 09:42:49 +0200

 drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c |    1 -
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
index 61a5825..062c0ab 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
@@ -406,7 +406,6 @@ #endif
 	rtc->char_dev.owner = rtc->owner;
 
 	if (cdev_add(&rtc->char_dev, MKDEV(MAJOR(rtc_devt), rtc->id), 1)) {
-		cdev_del(&rtc->char_dev);
 		dev_err(class_dev->dev,
 			"failed to add char device %d:%d\n",
 			MAJOR(rtc_devt), rtc->id);

             reply	other threads:[~2006-09-21  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-21  7:46 Rolf Eike Beer [this message]
2006-09-21  7:56 ` [RTC] Remove superfluous call to call to cdev_del() Alessandro Zummo
2006-09-21  8:30   ` Rolf Eike Beer
2006-09-21 14:44     ` Dmitry Torokhov

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