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| author | Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> | 2006-06-22 22:11:56 -0400 |
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| committer | Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> | 2006-06-22 22:11:56 -0400 |
| commit | 71d530cd1b6d97094481002a04c77fea1c8e1c22 (patch) | |
| tree | e786da7145d83c19a594adf76ed90d52c51058b1 /drivers/char/tty_io.c | |
| parent | d7a80dad2fe19a2b8c119c8e9cba605474a75a2b (diff) | |
| parent | d588fcbe5a7ba8bba2cebf7799ab2d573717a806 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'master' into upstream
Conflicts:
drivers/scsi/libata-core.c
drivers/scsi/libata-scsi.c
include/linux/pci_ids.h
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/tty_io.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/tty_io.c | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c index a88b94a82b14..8b2a59969868 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); } /** |