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staging: unisys: fix formatting in timskmod.h patch - e5700df52 [1]
diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/include/timskmod.h b/drivers/staging/unisys/include/timskmod.h
index b20fc9d..59144ba 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/unisys/include/timskmod.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/include/timskmod.h
@@ -293,6 +293,7 @@ static inline struct cdev *cdev_alloc_init(struct module *owner,
const struct file_operations *fops)
{
struct cdev *cdev = NULL;
+
cdev = cdev_alloc();
if (!cdev)
return NULL;
(This commit just happened to be the only one I peeked at from the link above - and is particularly apropos)
1. https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux....
