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authorDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2016-10-25 10:06:04 +0200
committerDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>2016-10-25 10:06:04 +0200
commit0fc4f78f44e6c6148cee32456f0d0023ec1c1fd8 (patch)
tree71c906207227dd8753a0191db9304035ec3471a4 /include/linux/miscdevice.h
parent78010cd9736ec571796f4404524ed575b81238b9 (diff)
parent5481e27f6fd06b7cb902072e81d6b083db8155eb (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'airlied/drm-next' into topic/drm-misc
Backmerge latest drm-next to have a baseline for the s/fence/dma_fence/ patch from Chris. Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/miscdevice.h')
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diff --git a/include/linux/miscdevice.h b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
index 543037465973..722698a43d79 100644
--- a/include/linux/miscdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
#include <linux/major.h>
#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/types.h>
+#include <linux/device.h>
/*
* These allocations are managed by device@lanana.org. If you use an
@@ -70,6 +71,13 @@ struct miscdevice {
extern int misc_register(struct miscdevice *misc);
extern void misc_deregister(struct miscdevice *misc);
+/*
+ * Helper macro for drivers that don't do anything special in module init / exit
+ * call. This helps in eleminating of boilerplate code.
+ */
+#define module_misc_device(__misc_device) \
+ module_driver(__misc_device, misc_register, misc_deregister)
+
#define MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(minor) \
MODULE_ALIAS("char-major-" __stringify(MISC_MAJOR) \
"-" __stringify(minor))