linux-kernel - [PATCH -next] x86/cpu: Drop pointless static qualifier in punit_dev_state

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Message-ID: <1539340822-117563-1-git-send-email-yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Date:   Fri, 12 Oct 2018 10:40:22 +0000
From:   YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
To:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@...ux.intel.com>
CC:     YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>, <x86@...nel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH -next] x86/cpu: Drop pointless static qualifier in punit_dev_state_show()

There is no need to have the 'struct dentry *dev_state' variable static
since new value always be assigned before use it.

Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
---
 arch/x86/platform/atom/punit_atom_debug.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/platform/atom/punit_atom_debug.c b/arch/x86/platform/atom/punit_atom_debug.c
index 41dae0f..6cb6076 100644
--- a/arch/x86/platform/atom/punit_atom_debug.c
+++ b/arch/x86/platform/atom/punit_atom_debug.c
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ static int punit_dev_state_show(struct seq_file *seq_file, void *unused)
 
 static int punit_dbgfs_register(struct punit_device *punit_device)
 {
-	static struct dentry *dev_state;
+	struct dentry *dev_state;
 
 	punit_dbg_file = debugfs_create_dir("punit_atom", NULL);
 	if (!punit_dbg_file)