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-rw-r--r--include/linux/tty_driver.h8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/tty_driver.h b/include/linux/tty_driver.h
index 5cf6850..6e6dbb7 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty_driver.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty_driver.h
@@ -50,6 +50,8 @@
* Note that tty_shutdown() is not called if ops->shutdown is defined.
* This means one is responsible to take care of calling ops->remove (e.g.
* via tty_driver_remove_tty) and releasing tty->termios.
+ * Note that this hook may be called from *all* the contexts where one
+ * uses tty refcounting (e.g. tty_port_tty_get).
*
*
* void (*cleanup)(struct tty_struct * tty);
@@ -234,6 +236,7 @@
* if provided (otherwise EINVAL will be returned).
*/
+#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/cdev.h>
@@ -298,7 +301,6 @@ struct tty_driver {
int name_base; /* offset of printed name */
int major; /* major device number */
int minor_start; /* start of minor device number */
- int minor_num; /* number of *possible* devices */
int num; /* number of devices allocated */
short type; /* type of tty driver */
short subtype; /* subtype of tty driver */
@@ -324,7 +326,7 @@ struct tty_driver {
extern struct list_head tty_drivers;
-extern struct tty_driver *alloc_tty_driver(int lines);
+extern struct tty_driver *__alloc_tty_driver(int lines, struct module *owner);
extern void put_tty_driver(struct tty_driver *driver);
extern void tty_set_operations(struct tty_driver *driver,
const struct tty_operations *op);
@@ -332,6 +334,8 @@ extern struct tty_driver *tty_find_polling_driver(char *name, int *line);
extern void tty_driver_kref_put(struct tty_driver *driver);
+#define alloc_tty_driver(lines) __alloc_tty_driver(lines, THIS_MODULE)
+
static inline struct tty_driver *tty_driver_kref_get(struct tty_driver *d)
{
kref_get(&d->kref);