linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: dgap: remove unnecessary function

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Date:	Wed, 5 Nov 2014 17:58:11 +0900
From:	Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@...il.com>
To:	lidza.louina@...il.com, markh@...pro.net
Cc:	markh@...pro.net, daeseok.youn@...il.com,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: dgap: remove unnecessary function

The dgap_init_global() initialize the dgap_board
that is a global variable as static and dgap_poll_timer.
But init_timer() is called twice in dgap_start() and dgap_board
doesn't need to be initialized to NULL.

Signed-off-by: Daeseok Youn <daeseok.youn@...il.com>
---
 drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c |   23 -----------------------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c b/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c
index 293dc33..aa393d2 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/dgap/dgap.c
@@ -7019,23 +7019,6 @@ static struct pci_driver dgap_driver = {
 };
 
 /*
- * dgap_init_globals()
- *
- * This is where we initialize the globals from the static insmod
- * configuration variables.  These are declared near the head of
- * this file.
- */
-static void dgap_init_globals(void)
-{
-	unsigned int i;
-
-	for (i = 0; i < MAXBOARDS; i++)
-		dgap_board[i] = NULL;
-
-	init_timer(&dgap_poll_timer);
-}
-
-/*
  * Start of driver.
  */
 static int dgap_start(void)
@@ -7044,12 +7027,6 @@ static int dgap_start(void)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	struct device *device;
 
-	/*
-	 * make sure that the globals are
-	 * init'd before we do anything else
-	 */
-	dgap_init_globals();
-
 	dgap_numboards = 0;
 
 	pr_info("For the tools package please visit http://www.digi.com\n");
-- 
1.7.1

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