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authorHansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de>2006-04-22 18:36:53 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2006-06-21 12:40:47 -0700
commit1cdcb6b43fda7424b7435dac8f80b2b5d8a48899 (patch)
tree3090342c60b9b8f0f8144f67962d3cb3ce2a9207
parent53877d06d53a412d901bb323f080296c363d8b51 (diff)
[PATCH] TTY: return class device pointer from tty_register_device()
Let tty_register_device() return a pointer to the class device it creates. This allows registrants to add their own sysfs files under the class device node. Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/tty_io.c11
-rw-r--r--include/linux/tty.h4
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index a88b94a82b1..8b2a5996986 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -2961,12 +2961,14 @@ static struct class *tty_class;
* This field is optional, if there is no known struct device for this
* tty device it can be set to NULL safely.
*
+ * Returns a pointer to the class device (or ERR_PTR(-EFOO) on error).
+ *
* This call is required to be made to register an individual tty device if
* the tty driver's flags have the TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS bit set. If that
* bit is not set, this function should not be called.
*/
-void tty_register_device(struct tty_driver *driver, unsigned index,
- struct device *device)
+struct class_device *tty_register_device(struct tty_driver *driver,
+ unsigned index, struct device *device)
{
char name[64];
dev_t dev = MKDEV(driver->major, driver->minor_start) + index;
@@ -2974,7 +2976,7 @@ void tty_register_device(struct tty_driver *driver, unsigned index,
if (index >= driver->num) {
printk(KERN_ERR "Attempt to register invalid tty line number "
" (%d).\n", index);
- return;
+ return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
}
devfs_mk_cdev(dev, S_IFCHR | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR,
@@ -2984,7 +2986,8 @@ void tty_register_device(struct tty_driver *driver, unsigned index,
pty_line_name(driver, index, name);
else
tty_line_name(driver, index, name);
- class_device_create(tty_class, NULL, dev, device, "%s", name);
+
+ return class_device_create(tty_class, NULL, dev, device, "%s", name);
}
/**
diff --git a/include/linux/tty.h b/include/linux/tty.h
index e898eeb9416..cb35ca50a0a 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty.h
@@ -290,7 +290,9 @@ extern int tty_register_ldisc(int disc, struct tty_ldisc *new_ldisc);
extern int tty_unregister_ldisc(int disc);
extern int tty_register_driver(struct tty_driver *driver);
extern int tty_unregister_driver(struct tty_driver *driver);
-extern void tty_register_device(struct tty_driver *driver, unsigned index, struct device *dev);
+extern struct class_device *tty_register_device(struct tty_driver *driver,
+ unsigned index,
+ struct device *dev);
extern void tty_unregister_device(struct tty_driver *driver, unsigned index);
extern int tty_read_raw_data(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned char *bufp,
int buflen);