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/arch/blackfin/mach-bf561/coreb.c b/arch/blackfin/mach-bf561/coreb.c
index 78ecb50..8a2543c 100644
--- a/arch/blackfin/mach-bf561/coreb.c
+++ b/arch/blackfin/mach-bf561/coreb.c
@@ -59,18 +59,7 @@ static struct miscdevice coreb_dev = {
 	.name  = "coreb",
 	.fops  = &coreb_fops,
 };
-
-static int __init bf561_coreb_init(void)
-{
-	return misc_register(&coreb_dev);
-}
-module_init(bf561_coreb_init);
-
-static void __exit bf561_coreb_exit(void)
-{
-	misc_deregister(&coreb_dev);
-}
-module_exit(bf561_coreb_exit);
+module_misc_device(coreb_dev);
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Bas Vermeulen <bvermeul@blackstar.xs4all.nl>");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("BF561 Core B Support");