commit cc36e7f124da139a819ad316c39d9dbcb5ba1897
author Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Sun Aug 27 01:23:27 2006 -0700
committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> Sun Aug 27 11:01:28 2006 -0700
tree 869cec3385a820bfc7b286c9bdc91fa47d4ada22
parent 641741e010b615bae417c876a21d17dbd616241f

[PATCH] tty: remove bogus call to cdev_del()

When cdev_add() failed there is no reason to call cdev_del().

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

drivers/char/tty_io.c

diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index bfdb902..d6e4eaa 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -3094,7 +3094,6 @@
 	driver->cdev.owner = driver->owner;
 	error = cdev_add(&driver->cdev, dev, driver->num);
 	if (error) {
-		cdev_del(&driver->cdev);
 		unregister_chrdev_region(dev, driver->num);
 		driver->ttys = NULL;
 		driver->termios = driver->termios_locked = NULL;