From 38b9722a4414c395c6c1e82cd5f8ee64a23313b8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 14:58:52 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] staging: comedi: avoid releasing legacy minors automatically

`comedi_alloc_board_minor()` is called for both reserved "legacy"
devices created during module initialization, and for dynamically
created devices (via `comedi_auto_config()`).  All the minor device
numbers from 0 to `comedi_num_legacy_minors - 1` are for legacy devices
and all those from `comedi_num_legacy_minors` to
`COMEDI_NUM_BOARD_MINORS - 1` are for dynamically created devices.

`comedi_release_hardware_device()` is called (via
`comedi_auto_unconfig()`) when a dynamically created device is being
removed.  It needs to search the table of minor device numbers to see
which one is associated with the hardware device.  It currently starts
the search at minor device number 0.  Change it to start from
`comedi_num_legacy_minors` to skip over those belonging to legacy
devices.  Also change `comedi_alloc_board_minor()` to skip the legacy
devices when searching for a free minor device number for the
dynamically created device.  (The validity of the `hardware_device`
parameter is used to distinguish the legacy devices from the dynamically
created ones.)

Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Reviewed-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@visionengravers.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
index 061b55b48383..ffa64228c3cf 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
@@ -2295,7 +2295,8 @@ struct comedi_device *comedi_alloc_board_minor(struct device *hardware_device)
 	comedi_device_init(dev);
 	mutex_lock(&dev->mutex);
 	spin_lock(&comedi_file_info_table_lock);
-	for (i = 0; i < COMEDI_NUM_BOARD_MINORS; ++i) {
+	for (i = hardware_device ? comedi_num_legacy_minors : 0;
+	     i < COMEDI_NUM_BOARD_MINORS; ++i) {
 		if (comedi_file_info_table[i] == NULL) {
 			comedi_file_info_table[i] = info;
 			break;
@@ -2359,7 +2360,8 @@ void comedi_release_hardware_device(struct device *hardware_device)
 	int minor;
 	struct comedi_file_info *info;
 
-	for (minor = 0; minor < COMEDI_NUM_BOARD_MINORS; minor++) {
+	for (minor = comedi_num_legacy_minors; minor < COMEDI_NUM_BOARD_MINORS;
+	     minor++) {
 		spin_lock(&comedi_file_info_table_lock);
 		info = comedi_file_info_table[minor];
 		if (info && info->hardware_device == hardware_device) {
-- 
2.34.1