[PATCH] pcmcia: remove dev_list from drivers

The linked list of devices managed by each PCMCIA driver is, in very most
cases, unused. Therefore, remove it from many drivers.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/isdn/hardware/avm/avm_cs.c b/drivers/isdn/hardware/avm/avm_cs.c
index 2d898d3afc97..0a8c1da10b4b 100644
--- a/drivers/isdn/hardware/avm/avm_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/isdn/hardware/avm/avm_cs.c
@@ -83,15 +83,7 @@ static dev_info_t dev_info = "avm_cs";
    device numbers are used to derive the corresponding array index.
 */
 
-static dev_link_t *dev_list = NULL;
-
 /*
-   A dev_link_t structure has fields for most things that are needed
-   to keep track of a socket, but there will usually be some device
-   specific information that also needs to be kept track of.  The
-   'priv' pointer in a dev_link_t structure can be used to point to
-   a device-specific private data structure, like this.
-
    A driver needs to provide a dev_node_t structure for each device
    on a card.  In some cases, there is only one device per card (for
    example, ethernet cards, modems).  In other cases, there may be
@@ -157,8 +149,7 @@ static dev_link_t *avmcs_attach(void)
     link->priv = local;
     
     /* Register with Card Services */
-    link->next = dev_list;
-    dev_list = link;
+    link->next = NULL;
     client_reg.dev_info = &dev_info;
     client_reg.Version = 0x0210;
     client_reg.event_callback_args.client_data = link;
@@ -188,19 +179,10 @@ static dev_link_t *avmcs_attach(void)
 static void avmcs_detach(struct pcmcia_device *p_dev)
 {
     dev_link_t *link = dev_to_instance(p_dev);
-    dev_link_t **linkp;
-
-    /* Locate device structure */
-    for (linkp = &dev_list; *linkp; linkp = &(*linkp)->next)
-        if (*linkp == link) break;
-    if (*linkp == NULL)
-        return;
 
     if (link->state & DEV_CONFIG)
         avmcs_release(link);
 
-    /* Unlink device structure, free pieces */
-    *linkp = link->next;
     kfree(link->priv);
     kfree(link);
 } /* avmcs_detach */
@@ -494,7 +476,6 @@ static int __init avmcs_init(void)
 static void __exit avmcs_exit(void)
 {
         pcmcia_unregister_driver(&avmcs_driver);
-        BUG_ON(dev_list != NULL);
 }
 
 module_init(avmcs_init);