*/
 #define MAX_BUF 163840
 
-static spinlock_t dev_num_pool_lock;
-static void *dev_num_pool;     /**< pool to grab device numbers from */
-
 static int visornic_probe(struct visor_device *dev);
 static void visornic_remove(struct visor_device *dev);
 static int visornic_pause(struct visor_device *dev,
 };
 
 struct visornic_devdata {
-       int devnum;
        unsigned short enabled;         /* 0 disabled 1 enabled to receive */
        unsigned short enab_dis_acked;  /* NET_RCV_ENABLE/DISABLE acked by
                                         * IOPART
 static struct visornic_devdata *
 devdata_initialize(struct visornic_devdata *devdata, struct visor_device *dev)
 {
-       int devnum = -1;
-
        if (!devdata)
                return NULL;
        memset(devdata, '\0', sizeof(struct visornic_devdata));
-       spin_lock(&dev_num_pool_lock);
-       devnum = find_first_zero_bit(dev_num_pool, MAXDEVICES);
-       set_bit(devnum, dev_num_pool);
-       spin_unlock(&dev_num_pool_lock);
-       if (devnum == MAXDEVICES)
-               devnum = -1;
-       if (devnum < 0)
-               return NULL;
-       devdata->devnum = devnum;
        devdata->dev = dev;
        spin_lock(&lock_all_devices);
        list_add_tail(&devdata->list_all, &list_all_devices);
  */
 static void devdata_release(struct visornic_devdata *devdata)
 {
-       spin_lock(&dev_num_pool_lock);
-       clear_bit(devdata->devnum, dev_num_pool);
-       spin_unlock(&dev_num_pool_lock);
        spin_lock(&lock_all_devices);
        list_del(&devdata->list_all);
        spin_unlock(&lock_all_devices);
        if (!visornic_timeout_reset_workqueue)
                goto cleanup_workqueue;
 
-       spin_lock_init(&dev_num_pool_lock);
-       dev_num_pool = kzalloc(BITS_TO_LONGS(MAXDEVICES), GFP_KERNEL);
-       if (!dev_num_pool)
-               goto cleanup_workqueue;
-
        err = visorbus_register_visor_driver(&visornic_driver);
        if (!err)
                return 0;
                destroy_workqueue(visornic_timeout_reset_workqueue);
        }
        debugfs_remove_recursive(visornic_debugfs_dir);
-
-       kfree(dev_num_pool);
-       dev_num_pool = NULL;
 }
 
 module_init(visornic_init);