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/input/misc/uinput.c | 15 ++------------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) (limited to 'drivers/input/misc/uinput.c') diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c b/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c index 65ebbd111702..92595b98e7ed 100644 --- a/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c +++ b/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c @@ -1013,23 +1013,12 @@ static struct miscdevice uinput_misc = { .minor = UINPUT_MINOR, .name = UINPUT_NAME, }; +module_misc_device(uinput_misc); + MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(UINPUT_MINOR); MODULE_ALIAS("devname:" UINPUT_NAME); -static int __init uinput_init(void) -{ - return misc_register(&uinput_misc); -} - -static void __exit uinput_exit(void) -{ - misc_deregister(&uinput_misc); -} - MODULE_AUTHOR("Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho"); MODULE_DESCRIPTION("User level driver support for input subsystem"); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_VERSION("0.3"); - -module_init(uinput_init); -module_exit(uinput_exit); -- cgit