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device create: infiniband: convert device_create_drvdata to device_create
[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / drivers / infiniband / core / uverbs_main.c
index caed42bf7ef57b3adcdc5e7ec158361d37d78860..d85af1b670274466f5ec13a518d8011da1cb7da0 100644 (file)
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@
  * ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN
  * CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
  * SOFTWARE.
- *
- * $Id: uverbs_main.c 2733 2005-06-28 19:14:34Z roland $
  */
 
 #include <linux/module.h>
@@ -610,6 +608,18 @@ static int ib_uverbs_mmap(struct file *filp, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
                return file->device->ib_dev->mmap(file->ucontext, vma);
 }
 
+/*
+ * ib_uverbs_open() does not need the BKL:
+ *
+ *  - dev_table[] accesses are protected by map_lock, the
+ *    ib_uverbs_device structures are properly reference counted, and
+ *    everything else is purely local to the file being created, so
+ *    races against other open calls are not a problem;
+ *  - there is no ioctl method to race against;
+ *  - the device is added to dev_table[] as the last part of module
+ *    initialization, the open method will either immediately run
+ *    -ENXIO, or all required initialization will be done.
+ */
 static int ib_uverbs_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
 {
        struct ib_uverbs_device *dev;
@@ -651,7 +661,6 @@ err_module:
 
 err:
        kref_put(&dev->ref, ib_uverbs_release_dev);
-
        return ret;
 }
 
@@ -755,12 +764,9 @@ static void ib_uverbs_add_one(struct ib_device *device)
        if (cdev_add(uverbs_dev->cdev, IB_UVERBS_BASE_DEV + uverbs_dev->devnum, 1))
                goto err_cdev;
 
-       uverbs_dev->dev = device_create_drvdata(uverbs_class,
-                                               device->dma_device,
-                                               uverbs_dev->cdev->dev,
-                                               uverbs_dev,
-                                               "uverbs%d",
-                                               uverbs_dev->devnum);
+       uverbs_dev->dev = device_create(uverbs_class, device->dma_device,
+                                       uverbs_dev->cdev->dev, uverbs_dev,
+                                       "uverbs%d", uverbs_dev->devnum);
        if (IS_ERR(uverbs_dev->dev))
                goto err_cdev;