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authorRafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>2008-02-04 22:30:11 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2008-02-05 09:44:23 -0800
commit533354d4ac48b7df99f18f952e5d51c3f59ba56c (patch)
treed1d5616e39d58ce8f27127901d43d4b0b0f69fa5 /include/linux/miscdevice.h
parentf011e2e2df3393c16b0fdc48e855e909b7e021ee (diff)
downloadlinux-next-533354d4ac48b7df99f18f952e5d51c3f59ba56c.tar.gz
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 'include/linux/miscdevice.h')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/miscdevice.h10
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/miscdevice.h b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
index dff9ea32606a..24b30b9b4f8a 100644
--- a/include/linux/miscdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
@@ -43,7 +43,15 @@ struct miscdevice {
};
extern int misc_register(struct miscdevice * misc);
-extern int misc_deregister(struct miscdevice * misc);
+extern int __misc_deregister(struct miscdevice *misc, bool suspended);
+static inline int misc_deregister(struct miscdevice *misc)
+{
+ return __misc_deregister(misc, false);
+}
+static inline int misc_deregister_suspended(struct miscdevice *misc)
+{
+ return __misc_deregister(misc, true);
+}
#define MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(minor) \
MODULE_ALIAS("char-major-" __stringify(MISC_MAJOR) \