[PATCH] proc: remove useless (and buggy) ->nlink settings

Bug: pnx8550 code creates directory but resets ->nlink to 1.

create_proc_entry() et al will correctly set ->nlink for you.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

7 files changed, 0 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
index 230064ede08..3aff5e99b67 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
@@ -1887,7 +1887,6 @@ int ipmi_smi_add_proc_entry(ipmi_smi_t smi, char *name,
 		kfree(entry);
 		rv = -ENOMEM;
 	} else {
-		file->nlink = 1;
 		file->data = data;
 		file->read_proc = read_proc;
 		file->write_proc = write_proc;
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c b/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c
index aa049dab3d9..ad49bd823eb 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide-proc.c
@@ -413,7 +413,6 @@ void ide_add_proc_entries(struct proc_dir_entry *dir, ide_proc_entry_t *p, void
 	while (p->name != NULL) {
 		ent = create_proc_entry(p->name, p->mode, dir);
 		if (!ent) return;
-		ent->nlink = 1;
 		ent->data = data;
 		ent->read_proc = p->read_proc;
 		ent->write_proc = p->write_proc;
diff --git a/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c b/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c
index 8ca75e52f63..eb6653f69ce 100644
--- a/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c
+++ b/drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c
@@ -516,7 +516,6 @@ static int __init via_pmu_dev_init(void)
 					proc_get_irqstats, NULL);
 		proc_pmu_options = create_proc_entry("options", 0600, proc_pmu_root);
 		if (proc_pmu_options) {
-			proc_pmu_options->nlink = 1;
 			proc_pmu_options->read_proc = proc_read_options;
 			proc_pmu_options->write_proc = proc_write_options;
 		}
diff --git a/drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_nexus.c b/drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_nexus.c
index ea9d5f233c8..6a51e99a807 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_nexus.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/hdpuftrs/hdpu_nexus.c
@@ -72,11 +72,9 @@ static int hdpu_nexus_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 		printk("Could not map slot id\n");
 	hdpu_slot_id = create_proc_entry("sky_slot_id", 0666, &proc_root);
 	hdpu_slot_id->read_proc = hdpu_slot_id_read;
-	hdpu_slot_id->nlink = 1;
 
 	hdpu_chassis_id = create_proc_entry("sky_chassis_id", 0666, &proc_root);
 	hdpu_chassis_id->read_proc = hdpu_chassis_id_read;
-	hdpu_chassis_id->nlink = 1;
 	return 0;
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/parisc/led.c b/drivers/parisc/led.c
index 8dac2ba82bb..9a731c101d1 100644
--- a/drivers/parisc/led.c
+++ b/drivers/parisc/led.c
@@ -252,7 +252,6 @@ static int __init led_create_procfs(void)
 	proc_pdc_root->owner = THIS_MODULE;
 	ent = create_proc_entry("led", S_IFREG|S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, proc_pdc_root);
 	if (!ent) return -1;
-	ent->nlink = 1;
 	ent->data = (void *)LED_NOLCD; /* LED */
 	ent->read_proc = led_proc_read;
 	ent->write_proc = led_proc_write;
@@ -262,7 +261,6 @@ static int __init led_create_procfs(void)
 	{
 		ent = create_proc_entry("lcd", S_IFREG|S_IRUGO|S_IWUSR, proc_pdc_root);
 		if (!ent) return -1;
-		ent->nlink = 1;
 		ent->data = (void *)LED_HASLCD; /* LCD */
 		ent->read_proc = led_proc_read;
 		ent->write_proc = led_proc_write;
diff --git a/drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_api.c b/drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_api.c
index b9e59bc9435..2c785148d21 100644
--- a/drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_api.c
+++ b/drivers/s390/crypto/zcrypt_api.c
@@ -1063,7 +1063,6 @@ int __init zcrypt_api_init(void)
 		rc = -ENOMEM;
 		goto out_misc;
 	}
-	zcrypt_entry->nlink = 1;
 	zcrypt_entry->data = NULL;
 	zcrypt_entry->read_proc = zcrypt_status_read;
 	zcrypt_entry->write_proc = zcrypt_status_write;
diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c
index 408c3380d60..6ec8cf1a3cc 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c
@@ -1419,7 +1419,6 @@ int __devinit rndis_init (void)
 			return -EIO;
 		}
 
-		rndis_connect_state [i]->nlink = 1;
 		rndis_connect_state [i]->write_proc = rndis_proc_write;
 		rndis_connect_state [i]->read_proc = rndis_proc_read;
 		rndis_connect_state [i]->data = (void *)