[PATCH] Char: specialix, kill unneeded page alloc

The driver is allocating a page but doesn't actually use it for anything.

(History from the old ->write method before Linus cleaned it up)

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/specialix.c b/drivers/char/specialix.c
index c0ef0f0e5800..f52c7c31badf 100644
--- a/drivers/char/specialix.c
+++ b/drivers/char/specialix.c
@@ -182,7 +182,6 @@ static int sx_poll = HZ;
 #define RS_EVENT_WRITE_WAKEUP   0
 
 static struct tty_driver *specialix_driver;
-static unsigned char * tmp_buf;
 
 static unsigned long baud_table[] =  {
         0, 50, 75, 110, 134, 150, 200, 300, 600, 1200, 1800, 2400, 4800,
@@ -1674,7 +1673,7 @@ static int sx_write(struct tty_struct * tty,
 
         bp = port_Board(port);
 
-        if (!port->xmit_buf || !tmp_buf) {
+        if (!port->xmit_buf) {
                 func_exit();
                 return 0;
         }
@@ -2398,12 +2397,6 @@ static int sx_init_drivers(void)
                 return 1;
         }
 
-        if (!(tmp_buf = (unsigned char *) get_zeroed_page(GFP_KERNEL))) {
-                printk(KERN_ERR "sx: Couldn't get free page.\n");
-                put_tty_driver(specialix_driver);
-                func_exit();
-                return 1;
-        }
         specialix_driver->owner = THIS_MODULE;
         specialix_driver->name = "ttyW";
         specialix_driver->major = SPECIALIX_NORMAL_MAJOR;
@@ -2417,7 +2410,6 @@ static int sx_init_drivers(void)
 
         if ((error = tty_register_driver(specialix_driver))) {
                 put_tty_driver(specialix_driver);
-                free_page((unsigned long)tmp_buf);
                 printk(KERN_ERR "sx: Couldn't register specialix IO8+ driver, error = %d\n",
                        error);
                 func_exit();
@@ -2443,7 +2435,6 @@ static void sx_release_drivers(void)
 {
         func_enter();
 
-        free_page((unsigned long)tmp_buf);
         tty_unregister_driver(specialix_driver);
         put_tty_driver(specialix_driver);
         func_exit();