miscdevice: Add helper macro for misc device boilerplate

Many modules call misc_register and misc_deregister in its module init
and exit methods without any additional code. This ends up being
boilerplate. This patch adds helper macro module_misc_device(), that
replaces module_init()/ module_exit() with template functions.

This patch also converts drivers to use new macro.

Change since v1:
Add device.h include in miscdevice.h as module_driver macro was not
available from other include files in some architectures.

Signed-off-by: PrasannaKumar Muralidharan <prasannatsmkumar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/vhost/test.c b/drivers/vhost/test.c
index 388eec4e1a90..70c342c987f7 100644
--- a/drivers/vhost/test.c
+++ b/drivers/vhost/test.c
@@ -322,18 +322,7 @@ static struct miscdevice vhost_test_misc = {
         "vhost-test",
         &vhost_test_fops,
 };
-
-static int vhost_test_init(void)
-{
-        return misc_register(&vhost_test_misc);
-}
-module_init(vhost_test_init);
-
-static void vhost_test_exit(void)
-{
-        misc_deregister(&vhost_test_misc);
-}
-module_exit(vhost_test_exit);
+module_misc_device(vhost_test_misc);
 
 MODULE_VERSION("0.0.1");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL v2");