On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 09:17:16AM +0100, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> This function gives a struct tty_struct for a given device number.
That says _what_ this does, but not why :)
>
> Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/tty/tty_io.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/tty.h | 1 +
> 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> index d9f54c7d94f2..584025117cd3 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
> @@ -1925,6 +1925,33 @@ struct tty_struct *tty_kopen(dev_t device)
> }
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(tty_kopen);
>
> +/*
> + * Caller gets a reference on (non-error) ttys, that must be disposed using
> + * tty_kref_put().
> + */
It's a global function, can you please use kerneldoc?
And please describe it as well as tty_kopen() is.
> +struct tty_struct *tty_kopen_shared(dev_t device)
> +{
> + struct tty_struct *tty;
> + struct tty_driver *driver;
> + int index = -1;
> +
> + mutex_lock(&tty_mutex);
> + driver = tty_lookup_driver(device, NULL, &index);
> + if (IS_ERR(driver)) {
> + tty = ERR_CAST(driver);
> + goto err_lookup_driver;
> + }
> +
> + tty = tty_driver_lookup_tty(driver, NULL, index);
No error check?
> +
> + tty_driver_kref_put(driver);
> +err_lookup_driver:
> +
> + mutex_unlock(&tty_mutex);
> + return tty;
Can't you share a lot of this code with tty_kopen()? It feels odd to
duplicatate _almost_ all of it here.
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_kopen_shared);
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL() please.
thanks,
greg k-h
