From 81d51a1fe7fb976e49b8d7738733c3f2c497fc56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:23:55 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 86230 b: refs/heads/master c:
 43fe105a5c91b2f00ea7f900ed307fe980410612 h: refs/heads/master v: v3

---
 [refs]                            | 2 +-
 trunk/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 8 +-------
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 1c2f29591b99..541fe2e4985a 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 79306a340c23e40c94ce16e504d172ae15b24187
+refs/heads/master: 43fe105a5c91b2f00ea7f900ed307fe980410612
diff --git a/trunk/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c b/trunk/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
index de3027521bfa..4072449ad1cd 100644
--- a/trunk/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
+++ b/trunk/drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c
@@ -217,10 +217,6 @@ static void __init dmi_save_devices(const struct dmi_header *dm)
 	}
 }
 
-static struct dmi_device empty_oem_string_dev = {
-	.name = dmi_empty_string,
-};
-
 static void __init dmi_save_oem_strings_devices(const struct dmi_header *dm)
 {
 	int i, count = *(u8 *)(dm + 1);
@@ -229,10 +225,8 @@ static void __init dmi_save_oem_strings_devices(const struct dmi_header *dm)
 	for (i = 1; i <= count; i++) {
 		char *devname = dmi_string(dm, i);
 
-		if (!strcmp(devname, dmi_empty_string)) {
-			list_add(&empty_oem_string_dev.list, &dmi_devices);
+		if (devname == dmi_empty_string)
 			continue;
-		}
 
 		dev = dmi_alloc(sizeof(*dev));
 		if (!dev) {