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Message-ID: <20190218125644.87448-1-yuehaibing@huawei.com>
Date:   Mon, 18 Feb 2019 12:56:44 +0000
From:   YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
To:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        Aravinda Prasad <aravinda@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Alexey Kardashevskiy <aik@...abs.ru>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:     YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>,
        <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH -next] powerpc/pseries: Drop pointless static qualifier in vpa_debugfs_init()

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

Signed-off-by: YueHaibing <yuehaibing@...wei.com>
---
 arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
index f2a9f0adc2d3..f649c1b652eb 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/lpar.c
@@ -1263,7 +1263,7 @@ static int __init vpa_debugfs_init(void)
 {
 	char name[16];
 	long i;
-	static struct dentry *vpa_dir;
+	struct dentry *vpa_dir;
 
 	if (!firmware_has_feature(FW_FEATURE_SPLPAR))
 		return 0;