linux-kernel - [PATCH 2/4] parport: do not check portlist when using device-model

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Date:   Wed, 16 Oct 2019 15:45:38 +0100
From:   Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@...e.cz>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 2/4] parport: do not check portlist when using device-model

We do not need to maintain a list of ports when we are using the
device-model. The base layer is going to maintain the list for us and
we can get the list of ports just using bus_for_each_dev().

Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
---
 drivers/parport/share.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/parport/share.c b/drivers/parport/share.c
index 7b4ee33c1935..96538b7975e5 100644
--- a/drivers/parport/share.c
+++ b/drivers/parport/share.c
@@ -266,9 +266,6 @@ static int port_check(struct device *dev, void *dev_drv)
 int __parport_register_driver(struct parport_driver *drv, struct module *owner,
 			      const char *mod_name)
 {
-	if (list_empty(&portlist))
-		get_lowlevel_driver();
-
 	if (drv->devmodel) {
 		/* using device model */
 		int ret;
@@ -292,6 +289,8 @@ int __parport_register_driver(struct parport_driver *drv, struct module *owner,
 
 		drv->devmodel = false;
 
+		if (list_empty(&portlist))
+			get_lowlevel_driver();
 		mutex_lock(&registration_lock);
 		list_for_each_entry(port, &portlist, list)
 			drv->attach(port);
-- 
2.11.0