From markmc@redhat.com Thu Dec 18 16:17:48 2008 From: Mark McLoughlin Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:58:28 +0000 Subject: lguest: do not statically allocate root device To: Greg KH Cc: Rusty Russell , Anthony Liguori , Kay Sievers , Cornelia Huck , Mark McLoughlin Message-ID: <1229345909-27229-3-git-send-email-markmc@redhat.com> We shouldn't be statically allocating the root device object, so dynamically allocate it using root_device_register() instead. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin Acked-by: Rusty Russell Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c | 10 ++++------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c +++ b/drivers/lguest/lguest_device.c @@ -321,10 +321,7 @@ static struct virtio_config_ops lguest_c /* The root device for the lguest virtio devices. This makes them appear as * /sys/devices/lguest/0,1,2 not /sys/devices/0,1,2. */ -static struct device lguest_root = { - .parent = NULL, - .bus_id = "lguest", -}; +static struct device *lguest_root; /*D:120 This is the core of the lguest bus: actually adding a new device. * It's a separate function because it's neater that way, and because an @@ -351,7 +348,7 @@ static void add_lguest_device(struct lgu } /* This devices' parent is the lguest/ dir. */ - ldev->vdev.dev.parent = &lguest_root; + ldev->vdev.dev.parent = lguest_root; /* We have a unique device index thanks to the dev_index counter. */ ldev->vdev.id.device = d->type; /* We have a simple set of routines for querying the device's @@ -407,7 +404,8 @@ static int __init lguest_devices_init(vo if (strcmp(pv_info.name, "lguest") != 0) return 0; - if (device_register(&lguest_root) != 0) + lguest_root = root_device_register("lguest"); + if (IS_ERR(lguest_root)) panic("Could not register lguest root"); /* Devices are in a single page above top of "normal" mem */