From ca75d601b5942e8cf5eed68f308be0526d0dac5d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 22:30:49 +0530 Subject: miscdevice: Add helper macro for misc device boilerplate Many modules call misc_register and misc_deregister in its module init and exit methods without any additional code. This ends up being boilerplate. This patch adds helper macro module_misc_device(), that replaces module_init()/ module_exit() with template functions. This patch also converts drivers to use new macro. Change since v1: Add device.h include in miscdevice.h as module_driver macro was not available from other include files in some architectures. Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/vhost/test.c | 13 +------------ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/vhost') diff --git a/drivers/vhost/test.c b/drivers/vhost/test.c index 388eec4e1a90..70c342c987f7 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/test.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/test.c @@ -322,18 +322,7 @@ static struct miscdevice vhost_test_misc = { "vhost-test", &vhost_test_fops, }; - -static int vhost_test_init(void) -{ - return misc_register(&vhost_test_misc); -} -module_init(vhost_test_init); - -static void vhost_test_exit(void) -{ - misc_deregister(&vhost_test_misc); -} -module_exit(vhost_test_exit); +module_misc_device(vhost_test_misc); MODULE_VERSION("0.0.1"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2"); -- cgit v1.2.3