[PATCH] chardev: GPIO for SCx200 & PC-8736x: dispatch via vtable
[firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git] / drivers / char / tty_io.c
index a88b94a82b140f42b24d68409f651392805e0465..bd74e82d8a72a443b8ca4579898e3dcf11e876f3 100644 (file)
@@ -2621,10 +2621,9 @@ int tty_ioctl(struct inode * inode, struct file * file,
                        tty->driver->break_ctl(tty, 0);
                        return 0;
                case TCSBRK:   /* SVID version: non-zero arg --> no break */
-                       /*
-                        * XXX is the above comment correct, or the
-                        * code below correct?  Is this ioctl used at
-                        * all by anyone?
+                       /* non-zero arg means wait for all output data
+                        * to be sent (performed above) but don't send break.
+                        * This is used by the tcdrain() termios function.
                         */
                        if (!arg)
                                return send_break(tty, 250);
@@ -2961,12 +2960,14 @@ 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 +2975,7 @@ 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 +2985,8 @@ 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);
 }
 
 /**