[POWERPC] Remove linux,device properties

The linux,device property isn't used anywhere within the kernel, and
since it's a kernel pointer, it's a little useless for userspace.

This change removes the code to create this property in
of_device_register.

Built for pmac32.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 24 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/of_device.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/of_device.c
index 3262b73a3a68..397c83eda20e 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/of_device.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/of_device.c
@@ -189,27 +189,9 @@ void of_release_dev(struct device *dev)
 int of_device_register(struct of_device *ofdev)
 {
         int rc;
-        struct of_device **odprop;
 
         BUG_ON(ofdev->node == NULL);
 
-        odprop = (struct of_device **)get_property(ofdev->node, "linux,device", NULL);
-        if (!odprop) {
-                struct property *new_prop;
-        
-                new_prop = kmalloc(sizeof(struct property) + sizeof(struct of_device *),
-                        GFP_KERNEL);
-                if (new_prop == NULL)
-                        return -ENOMEM;
-                new_prop->name = "linux,device";
-                new_prop->length = sizeof(sizeof(struct of_device *));
-                new_prop->value = (unsigned char *)&new_prop[1];
-                odprop = (struct of_device **)new_prop->value;
-                *odprop = NULL;
-                prom_add_property(ofdev->node, new_prop);
-        }
-        *odprop = ofdev;
-
         rc = device_register(&ofdev->dev);
         if (rc)
                 return rc;
@@ -221,14 +203,8 @@ int of_device_register(struct of_device *ofdev)
 
 void of_device_unregister(struct of_device *ofdev)
 {
-        struct of_device **odprop;
-
         device_remove_file(&ofdev->dev, &dev_attr_devspec);
 
-        odprop = (struct of_device **)get_property(ofdev->node, "linux,device", NULL);
-        if (odprop)
-                *odprop = NULL;
-
         device_unregister(&ofdev->dev);
 }