nvdimm/blk: don't allocate unused major device number

When alloc_disk(0) is used ->major is completely ignored, all devices
are allocated with a "major" of BLOCK_EXT_MAJOR.

So don't allocate nd_blk_major

Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/nvdimm/blk.c b/drivers/nvdimm/blk.c
index 91a336ea8c4f..e9ff9229d942 100644
--- a/drivers/nvdimm/blk.c
+++ b/drivers/nvdimm/blk.c
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ struct nd_blk_device {
         u32 internal_lbasize;
 };
 
-static int nd_blk_major;
-
 static u32 nd_blk_meta_size(struct nd_blk_device *blk_dev)
 {
         return blk_dev->nsblk->lbasize - blk_dev->sector_size;
@@ -264,7 +262,6 @@ static int nd_blk_attach_disk(struct nd_namespace_common *ndns,
         }
 
         disk->driverfs_dev      = &ndns->dev;
-        disk->major             = nd_blk_major;
         disk->first_minor       = 0;
         disk->fops              = &nd_blk_fops;
         disk->private_data      = blk_dev;
@@ -358,25 +355,12 @@ static struct nd_device_driver nd_blk_driver = {
 
 static int __init nd_blk_init(void)
 {
-        int rc;
-
-        rc = register_blkdev(0, "nd_blk");
-        if (rc < 0)
-                return rc;
-
-        nd_blk_major = rc;
-        rc = nd_driver_register(&nd_blk_driver);
-
-        if (rc < 0)
-                unregister_blkdev(nd_blk_major, "nd_blk");
-
-        return rc;
+        return nd_driver_register(&nd_blk_driver);
 }
 
 static void __exit nd_blk_exit(void)
 {
         driver_unregister(&nd_blk_driver.drv);
-        unregister_blkdev(nd_blk_major, "nd_blk");
 }
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Ross Zwisler <ross.zwisler@linux.intel.com>");