Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6

[pandora-kernel.git] / fs / char_dev.c

diff --git a/fs/char_dev.c b/fs/char_dev.c
index a173551..3cbc57f 100644 (file)
--- a/fs/char_dev.c
+++ b/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@
  * - no readahead or I/O queue unplugging required
  */
 struct backing_dev_info directly_mappable_cdev_bdi = {
+       .name = "char",
        .capabilities   = (
 #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
                /* permit private copies of the data to be taken */
@@ -237,8 +238,10 @@ int alloc_chrdev_region(dev_t *dev, unsigned baseminor, unsigned count,
 }
 
 /**
- * register_chrdev() - Register a major number for character devices.
+ * __register_chrdev() - create and register a cdev occupying a range of minors
  * @major: major device number or 0 for dynamic allocation
+ * @baseminor: first of the requested range of minor numbers
+ * @count: the number of minor numbers required
  * @name: name of this range of devices
  * @fops: file operations associated with this devices
  *
@@ -254,19 +257,17 @@ int alloc_chrdev_region(dev_t *dev, unsigned baseminor, unsigned count,
  * /dev. It only helps to keep track of the different owners of devices. If
  * your module name has only one type of devices it's ok to use e.g. the name
  * of the module here.
- *
- * This function registers a range of 256 minor numbers. The first minor number
- * is 0.
  */
-int register_chrdev(unsigned int major, const char *name,
-                   const struct file_operations *fops)
+int __register_chrdev(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
+                     unsigned int count, const char *name,
+                     const struct file_operations *fops)
 {
        struct char_device_struct *cd;
        struct cdev *cdev;
        char *s;
        int err = -ENOMEM;
 
-       cd = __register_chrdev_region(major, 0, 256, name);
+       cd = __register_chrdev_region(major, baseminor, count, name);
        if (IS_ERR(cd))
                return PTR_ERR(cd);
        
@@ -280,7 +281,7 @@ int register_chrdev(unsigned int major, const char *name,
        for (s = strchr(kobject_name(&cdev->kobj),'/'); s; s = strchr(s, '/'))
                *s = '!';
                
-       err = cdev_add(cdev, MKDEV(cd->major, 0), 256);
+       err = cdev_add(cdev, MKDEV(cd->major, baseminor), count);
        if (err)
                goto out;
 
@@ -290,7 +291,7 @@ int register_chrdev(unsigned int major, const char *name,
 out:
        kobject_put(&cdev->kobj);
 out2:
-       kfree(__unregister_chrdev_region(cd->major, 0, 256));
+       kfree(__unregister_chrdev_region(cd->major, baseminor, count));
        return err;
 }
 
@@ -316,10 +317,23 @@ void unregister_chrdev_region(dev_t from, unsigned count)
        }
 }
 
-void unregister_chrdev(unsigned int major, const char *name)
+/**
+ * __unregister_chrdev - unregister and destroy a cdev
+ * @major: major device number
+ * @baseminor: first of the range of minor numbers
+ * @count: the number of minor numbers this cdev is occupying
+ * @name: name of this range of devices
+ *
+ * Unregister and destroy the cdev occupying the region described by
+ * @major, @baseminor and @count.  This function undoes what
+ * __register_chrdev() did.
+ */
+void __unregister_chrdev(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
+                        unsigned int count, const char *name)
 {
        struct char_device_struct *cd;
-       cd = __unregister_chrdev_region(major, 0, 256);
+
+       cd = __unregister_chrdev_region(major, baseminor, count);
        if (cd && cd->cdev)
                cdev_del(cd->cdev);
        kfree(cd);
@@ -568,6 +582,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_alloc);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_del);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_add);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(cdev_index);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_chrdev);
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_chrdev);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__register_chrdev);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(__unregister_chrdev);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(directly_mappable_cdev_bdi);