[PATCH] devfs: Remove the miscdevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed

Also fixes all drivers that set this field.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

2 files changed, 0 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c
index f1fdd84c5dc5..dfe1cede3916 100644
--- a/drivers/char/misc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/misc.c
@@ -227,10 +227,6 @@ int misc_register(struct miscdevice * misc)
 
         if (misc->minor < DYNAMIC_MINORS)
                 misc_minors[misc->minor >> 3] |= 1 << (misc->minor & 7);
-        if (misc->devfs_name[0] == '\0') {
-                snprintf(misc->devfs_name, sizeof(misc->devfs_name),
-                                "misc/%s", misc->name);
-        }
         dev = MKDEV(MISC_MAJOR, misc->minor);
 
         misc->class = class_device_create(misc_class, NULL, dev, misc->dev,
diff --git a/drivers/char/mmtimer.c b/drivers/char/mmtimer.c
index f25168a9676d..95e8122b8068 100644
--- a/drivers/char/mmtimer.c
+++ b/drivers/char/mmtimer.c
@@ -693,7 +693,6 @@ static int __init mmtimer_init(void)
                 return -1;
         }
 
-        strcpy(mmtimer_miscdev.devfs_name, MMTIMER_NAME);
         if (misc_register(&mmtimer_miscdev)) {
                 printk(KERN_ERR "%s: failed to register device\n",
                        MMTIMER_NAME);