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authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>2012-01-24 13:35:37 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2012-01-24 16:00:36 -0800
commit9875bb480cc89d9b690f7028aadf7e58454f0dae (patch)
tree45116b0424af02a708abf58c56967c14dcfc06d5
parentRemove useless get_driver()/put_driver() calls (diff)
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Eliminate get_driver() and put_driver()
Now that there are no users of get_driver() or put_driver(), this patch (as1513) removes those routines completely. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> CC: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/driver.c28
-rw-r--r--include/linux/device.h2
2 files changed, 0 insertions, 30 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/driver.c b/drivers/base/driver.c
index e979cad75c6e..60e4f77ca662 100644
--- a/drivers/base/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/base/driver.c
@@ -153,34 +153,6 @@ int driver_add_kobj(struct device_driver *drv, struct kobject *kobj,
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(driver_add_kobj);
-/**
- * get_driver - increment driver reference count.
- * @drv: driver.
- */
-struct device_driver *get_driver(struct device_driver *drv)
-{
- if (drv) {
- struct driver_private *priv;
- struct kobject *kobj;
-
- kobj = kobject_get(&drv->p->kobj);
- priv = to_driver(kobj);
- return priv->driver;
- }
- return NULL;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(get_driver);
-
-/**
- * put_driver - decrement driver's refcount.
- * @drv: driver.
- */
-void put_driver(struct device_driver *drv)
-{
- kobject_put(&drv->p->kobj);
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(put_driver);
-
static int driver_add_groups(struct device_driver *drv,
const struct attribute_group **groups)
{
diff --git a/include/linux/device.h b/include/linux/device.h
index a782d7ff9e8b..d28bd8295677 100644
--- a/include/linux/device.h
+++ b/include/linux/device.h
@@ -238,8 +238,6 @@ struct device_driver {
extern int __must_check driver_register(struct device_driver *drv);
extern void driver_unregister(struct device_driver *drv);
-extern struct device_driver *get_driver(struct device_driver *drv);
-extern void put_driver(struct device_driver *drv);
extern struct device_driver *driver_find(const char *name,
struct bus_type *bus);
extern int driver_probe_done(void);