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2009-09-23virtio: add virtio IDs fileFernando Luis Vazquez Cao
Virtio IDs are spread all over the tree which makes assigning new IDs bothersome. Putting them together should make the process less error-prone. Signed-off-by: Fernando Luis Vazquez Cao <fernando@oss.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2009-09-23virtio: make add_buf return capacity remainingRusty Russell
This API change means that virtio_net can tell how much capacity remains for buffers. It's necessarily fuzzy, since VIRTIO_RING_F_INDIRECT_DESC means we can fit any number of descriptors in one, *if* we can kmalloc. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Cc: Dinesh Subhraveti <dineshs@us.ibm.com>
2009-09-22Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits) trivial: fix typo in aic7xxx comment trivial: fix comment typo in drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txt trivial: fix typo in tracing documentation trivial: add __init/__exit macros in drivers/gpio/bt8xxgpio.c trivial: add __init macro/ fix of __exit macro location in ipmi_poweroff.c trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment trivial: kbuild: remove extraneous blank line after declaration of usage() trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argument trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harm trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management" trivial: media/video/cx88: add __init/__exit macros to cx88 drivers trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc trivial: fix missing printk space in amd_k7_smp_check trivial: fix typo s/ketymap/keymap/ in comment trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files trivial: fix typos in comments s/DGBU/DBGU/ ...
2009-09-22pcmcia: fix read buffer overflowRoel Kluin
If count > 0 and dev->rlen == dev->rpos and dev->proto == 0 then we read and write dev->rbuf[-1]; Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin <roel.kluin@gmail.com> Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-22mm: replace various uses of num_physpages by totalram_pagesJan Beulich
Sizing of memory allocations shouldn't depend on the number of physical pages found in a system, as that generally includes (perhaps a huge amount of) non-RAM pages. The amount of what actually is usable as storage should instead be used as a basis here. Some of the calculations (i.e. those not intending to use high memory) should likely even use (totalram_pages - totalhigh_pages). Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh.dickins@tiscali.co.uk> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-09-21trivial: add __init macro/ fix of __exit macro location in ipmi_poweroff.cPeter Huewe
Trivial patch which adds the __init to the module_init function of drivers/char/ipmi/ipmy_poweroff.c and corrects the location of __exit for the cleanup function. Signed-off-by: Peter Huewe <peterhuewe@gmx.de> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21trivial: remove unnecessary semicolonsJoe Perches
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple filesAnand Gadiyar
Signed-off-by: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-09-21perf: Do the big rename: Performance Counters -> Performance EventsIngo Molnar
Bye-bye Performance Counters, welcome Performance Events! In the past few months the perfcounters subsystem has grown out its initial role of counting hardware events, and has become (and is becoming) a much broader generic event enumeration, reporting, logging, monitoring, analysis facility. Naming its core object 'perf_counter' and naming the subsystem 'perfcounters' has become more and more of a misnomer. With pending code like hw-breakpoints support the 'counter' name is less and less appropriate. All in one, we've decided to rename the subsystem to 'performance events' and to propagate this rename through all fields, variables and API names. (in an ABI compatible fashion) The word 'event' is also a bit shorter than 'counter' - which makes it slightly more convenient to write/handle as well. Thanks goes to Stephane Eranian who first observed this misnomer and suggested a rename. User-space tooling and ABI compatibility is not affected - this patch should be function-invariant. (Also, defconfigs were not touched to keep the size down.) This patch has been generated via the following script: FILES=$(find * -type f | grep -vE 'oprofile|[^K]config') sed -i \ -e 's/PERF_EVENT_/PERF_RECORD_/g' \ -e 's/PERF_COUNTER/PERF_EVENT/g' \ -e 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g' \ -e 's/nb_counters/nb_events/g' \ -e 's/swcounter/swevent/g' \ -e 's/tpcounter_event/tp_event/g' \ $FILES for N in $(find . -name perf_counter.[ch]); do M=$(echo $N | sed 's/perf_counter/perf_event/g') mv $N $M done FILES=$(find . -name perf_event.*) sed -i \ -e 's/COUNTER_MASK/REG_MASK/g' \ -e 's/COUNTER/EVENT/g' \ -e 's/\<event\>/event_id/g' \ -e 's/counter/event/g' \ -e 's/Counter/Event/g' \ $FILES ... to keep it as correct as possible. This script can also be used by anyone who has pending perfcounters patches - it converts a Linux kernel tree over to the new naming. We tried to time this change to the point in time where the amount of pending patches is the smallest: the end of the merge window. Namespace clashes were fixed up in a preparatory patch - and some stylistic fallout will be fixed up in a subsequent patch. ( NOTE: 'counters' are still the proper terminology when we deal with hardware registers - and these sed scripts are a bit over-eager in renaming them. I've undone some of that, but in case there's something left where 'counter' would be better than 'event' we can undo that on an individual basis instead of touching an otherwise nicely automated patch. ) Suggested-by: Stephane Eranian <eranian@google.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Reviewed-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-09-20Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: Driver-Core: extend devnode callbacks to provide permissions
2009-09-19tty: Char: mxser, use THRE for ASPP_OQUEUE ioctlJiri Slaby
In moxa specific ASPP_OQUEUE ioctl command, they apparently want only know whether there is space in transmitter hold register. So switch UART_LSR_TEMT to UART_LSR_THRE in that specific case according to the change in 1.14 moxa drivers. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19tty: Char: mxser, add support for CP112ULJiri Slaby
Add support for MOXA:0x1120 pci device. It's a 2-port device and differs in no way from the others. So this turns out to be a trivial pci_device_id change. Increase also the version number. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19tty: riscom8, fix tty refcntJiri Slaby
Stanse found a tty refcnt leak on one fail path in rc_transmit. Fix that by jumping to the 'out' label. http://stanse.fi.muni.cz/ Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19tty: riscom8, fix shutdown declarationJiri Slaby
tty_port_ops.shutdown takes only one parameter: tty port. Remove the second one and use port->tty where needed instead. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19TTY: fix typosAlan Stern
This patch (as1282) fixes some obvious typos in the TTY core. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> CC: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19tty: Power: fix suspend vt regressionJiri Slaby
vt_waitactive no longer accepts console parameter as console-1 since commit "vt: add an event interface". It expects console number directly (as viewed by userspace -- counting from 1). Fix a deadlock suspend regression by redefining adding one to vt in vt_move_to_console. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19tty: vt: use printk_onceMarcin Slusarz
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19tty: handle VT specific compat ioctls in vt driverArnd Bergmann
The VT specific compat_ioctl handlers are the only ones in common code that require the BKL. Moving them into the vt driver lets us remove the BKL from the other handlers and cleans up the code. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19n_tty: move echoctl check and clean up logicJoe Peterson
Check L_ECHOCTL before insertting a character in the echo buffer (rather than as the buffer is processed), to be more consistent with when all other L_ flags are checked. Also cleaned up the related logic. Note that this and the previous patch ("n_tty: honor opost flag for echoes") were verified together by the reporters of the bug that patch addresses (http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2692), and the test now passes. Signed-off-by: Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19n_tty: honor opost flag for echoesJoe Peterson
Fixes the following bug: http://bugs.linuxbase.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2692 Causes processing of echoed characters (output from the echo buffer) to honor the O_OPOST flag, which is consistent with the old behavior. Note that this and the next patch ("n_tty: move echoctl check and clean up logic") were verified together by the bug reporters, and the test now passes. Signed-off-by: Joe Peterson <joe@skyrush.com> Cc: Linux Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19tty: USB serial termios bitsAlan Cox
Various drivers have hacks to mangle termios structures. This stems from the fact there is no nice setup hook for configuring the termios settings when the port is created Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19serial: move delta_msr_wait into the tty_portAlan Cox
This is used by various drivers not just serial and can be extracted as commonality Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-19isicom: split the open method for the isicom deviceAlan Cox
Again moving towards being able to add a common open method Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-19vt: add an activate and lockAlan Cox
X and other graphical interfaces need to be able to flip to a console and lock it into graphics mode without races. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19vt: remove power stuff from kernel/powerAlan Cox
In the past someone gratuitiously borrowed chunks of kernel internal vt code and dumped them in kernel/power. They have all sorts of deep relations with the vt code so put them in the vt tree instead Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19vt: add an event interfaceAlan Cox
This is needed and requested in various forms for ConsoleKit, screenblank handling and the like so do the job with a single interface. Also build the interface so that unlike VT_WAITACTIVE and friends it won't miss events. FIXME: Should this be a waitactive ioctl or a new device file you can poll and read events from. We need the code anyway to fix up the existing broken wait for console switch logic but the ConsoleKit people would prefer the new device to the ioctl we have here Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19tty: make the kref destructor occur asynchronouslyAlan Cox
We want to be able to sleep in the destructor for USB at least. It isn't a hot path so just pushing it to a work queue doesn't really cause any difficulty. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19cyclades: use the full port_close functionAlan Cox
Convert cyclades to use the full tty_port_close helper Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19tty: riscom8 kref and tty_port_closeAlan Cox
We need to kref this driver in order to use port_close Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19isicom: Split the close hardware bits outAlan Cox
Start to extract and build a model for a common tty_port_close() Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-19mxser: Split close ready for a standard tty_port_close methodAlan Cox
Prepare for the tty_port_close function by splitting out methods Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
2009-09-19riscom8: split open and close methods upAlan Cox
Moving towards a tty_port method for open/close Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19tty: Add a full port_close functionAlan Cox
Now we are extracting out methods for shutdown and the like we can add a proper tty_port_close method that knows all the innards of the tty closing process and hides the lot from the caller. At some point in the future this will be paired with a similar open() helper and the drivers can stick to hardware management. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19tty: Fix a typo noted in passingAlan Cox
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19cyclades: remove more duplicated codeJiri Slaby
Remove duplicated code from cy_set_line_char. There were 2 if branches with same contents except flags. Branch only for the flags computation and use them in the only copy of the code. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19cyclades: introduce cyy_readb/writebJiri Slaby
Add helpers for io operations, so that we can eliminate huge amount of supporting code. It is now centralized in those helpers and used values are precomputed in the init phase. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19cyclades: tiocm cleanupJiri Slaby
- save one indent level by inverting !fw_loaded condition - read rs_status on Z and write it after we change all the flags, don't do that separately - remove Y inverted rts/dtr branching, precompute registers and use them Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19cyclades: ioctls cleanupJiri Slaby
- add a cy_ prefix to functions with changed prototypes - cy_get_serial_info: initialize serial_struct by initializer, save a memset - inline simple functions (get_mon_info, {s,g}et_default_threshold, {s,g}et_default_timeout) directly in the ioctl handler - add a cy_cflags_changed helper to not copy its code by wait_event_interruptible - remove some ret_val = 0 assignments, it's preset to 0 - TIOCGICOUNT: don't do many put_user's, do one copy_to_user Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19cyclades: merge cy_startup tailsJiri Slaby
There is a duplicated code for Y and Z in cy_startup, merge the paths. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19cyclades: use dtr_rts helpersJiri Slaby
For Z cards, use tty helpers for dtr_rts. If we did the same for Y cards, it will cause a deadlock, because cyy_dtr_rts takes a lock which we already hold. Instead, we introduce a Y helper expecting card lock to be held. It may then be called with set/clear masks from other places. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19cyclades: sleep instead busy-waitJiri Slaby
Avoid long busy loops (5 ms) which may be replaced by sleeps. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19cyclades: overall cleanupJiri Slaby
- remove changelog from the file. we don't care about ancient history - update copyright year - update version - constify some stuff - empty lines removal - unused variables and macros removal - remove some asm/ includes, they are sucked by linux/ variants Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19cyclades: close cleanupJiri Slaby
Use new tty helpers for close, which allows much code removal. The only real change is locking. card_lock for protecting was used inappropriately (just to have a critical section, no matter which lock is used), so the change to port->lock is fine. Remove also useless debug printks while being there. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19cyclades: switch to tty_port_hangupJiri Slaby
Do not duplicate common tty_port_hangup code. Use it instead. Also do not unset ASYNC_NORMAL_ACTIVE and wake up from the tty_hangup() caller. It makes no sense since we don't check that flag in sleepers. tty_port_hangup() performed later will do the right job. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19cyclades: avoid addresses recomputationJiri Slaby
Don't fetch firmware address and recompute channel control on each port access. Precompute the values on init and use them later all the time. The same for board control. This simplify code and improves readability. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19cyclades: remove block_til_readyJiri Slaby
Use a tty_port common instead. This saves lots of .text and makes the code a lot more readable. This involves separation of a dtr_rts handling, next patches will use that to not duplicate the code all over the place. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19cyclades: add tty refcountingJiri Slaby
While this is not problem for Y card handlers (they are protected by card_lock), Z handlers and other functions may dereference NULL at any point after hangup/close. Even if (tty == NULL) was already performed in the handler. Note that it's not an issue for Y cards just for now. After switching to tty_port_close_* et al. this will be a problem. So add refcounting to them all. Also proc .show doesn't take a tty reference and it should (along with a ldisc one). While at it and changing prototypes (adding tty param), prepend cy_ to functions which don't have it yet. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19tty: includecheck fix: drivers/char, vt.cJaswinder Singh Rajput
fix the following 'make includecheck' warning: drivers/char/vt.c: linux/device.h is included more than once. Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19tty-ldisc: get rid of tty_ldisc_try_get() helper functionLinus Torvalds
Now that the /proc/tty/ldiscs handling doesn't play games with 'struct ldisc' any more, the only remaining user of 'tty_ldisc_try_get()' is 'tty_ldisc_get()' (note the lack of 'try'). And we're actually much better off folding the logic directly into that file, since the 'try' part was always about trying to get the ldisc operations, not the ldisc itself: and making that explicit inside of 'tty_ldisc_get()' clarifies the whole semantics. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>, Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-19tty-ldisc: make /proc/tty/ldiscs use ldisc_ops instead of ldiscsLinus Torvalds
The /proc/tty/ldiscs file is totally and utterly un-interested in the "struct tty_ldisc" structures, and only cares about the underlying ldisc operations. So don't make it create a dummy 'struct ldisc' only to get a pointer to the operations, and then destroy it. Instead, we split up the function 'tty_ldisc_try_get()', and create a 'get_ldops()' helper that just looks up the ldisc operations based on the ldisc number. That makes the code simpler to read (smaller and more well-defined helper functions), and allows the /proc functions to avoid creating that useless dummy only to immediately free it again. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>