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| author |   Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> | 2008-02-04 22:30:11 -0800 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2008-02-05 09:44:23 -0800 |
| commit | 533354d4ac48b7df99f18f952e5d51c3f59ba56c (patch) | |
| tree | d1d5616e39d58ce8f27127901d43d4b0b0f69fa5 /drivers | |
| parent | latency.c: use QoS infrastructure (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-533354d4ac48b7df99f18f952e5d51c3f59ba56c.tar.xz linux-dev-533354d4ac48b7df99f18f952e5d51c3f59ba56c.zip | |
Misc: Add possibility to remove misc devices during suspend/resume
Make it possible to unregister a misc device object in a safe way during a
suspend/resume cycle.
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/misc.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c index 71c8cd7fa15f..a39101feb2ed 100644 --- a/drivers/char/misc.c +++ b/drivers/char/misc.c @@ -232,8 +232,9 @@ int misc_register(struct miscdevice * misc) } /** - * misc_deregister - unregister a miscellaneous device + * __misc_deregister - unregister a miscellaneous device * @misc: device to unregister + * @suspended: to be set if the function is used during suspend/resume * * Unregister a miscellaneous device that was previously * successfully registered with misc_register(). Success @@ -241,7 +242,7 @@ int misc_register(struct miscdevice * misc) * indicates an error. */ -int misc_deregister(struct miscdevice * misc) +int __misc_deregister(struct miscdevice *misc, bool suspended) { int i = misc->minor; @@ -250,7 +251,11 @@ int misc_deregister(struct miscdevice * misc) mutex_lock(&misc_mtx); list_del(&misc->list); - device_destroy(misc_class, MKDEV(MISC_MAJOR, misc->minor)); + if (suspended) + destroy_suspended_device(misc_class, + MKDEV(MISC_MAJOR, misc->minor)); + else + device_destroy(misc_class, MKDEV(MISC_MAJOR, misc->minor)); if (i < DYNAMIC_MINORS && i>0) { misc_minors[i>>3] &= ~(1 << (misc->minor & 7)); } @@ -259,7 +264,7 @@ int misc_deregister(struct miscdevice * misc) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(misc_register); -EXPORT_SYMBOL(misc_deregister); +EXPORT_SYMBOL(__misc_deregister); static int __init misc_init(void) { |