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authorAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>2006-03-28 01:56:18 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-28 09:16:02 -0800
commit829d5f68ec59ff7c0fdd472132680df8e4b64f3e (patch)
tree9673303b0141dd6330e2ead5970084260a80884c
parent8637980bab3f09157eef20cc65d2eb7393c770fd (diff)
[PATCH] paride-pt: register_chrdev fix
If the user specified `major=0' (odd thing to do), pt.c will use dynamic allocation. We need to pick up that major for subsequent unregister_chrdev(). Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/block/paride/pt.c8
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/block/paride/pt.c b/drivers/block/paride/pt.c
index 715ae5dc88fb..d2013d362403 100644
--- a/drivers/block/paride/pt.c
+++ b/drivers/block/paride/pt.c
@@ -943,7 +943,8 @@ static ssize_t pt_write(struct file *filp, const char __user *buf, size_t count,
static int __init pt_init(void)
{
- int unit, err = 0;
+ int unit;
+ int err;
if (disable) {
err = -1;
@@ -955,14 +956,15 @@ static int __init pt_init(void)
goto out;
}
- if (register_chrdev(major, name, &pt_fops)) {
+ err = register_chrdev(major, name, &pt_fops);
+ if (err < 0) {
printk("pt_init: unable to get major number %d\n", major);
for (unit = 0; unit < PT_UNITS; unit++)
if (pt[unit].present)
pi_release(pt[unit].pi);
- err = -1;
goto out;
}
+ major = err;
pt_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "pt");
if (IS_ERR(pt_class)) {
err = PTR_ERR(pt_class);