The patch titled
tty: remove bogus call to cdev_del()
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
tty-remove-bogus-call-to-cdev_del.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: tty: remove bogus call to cdev_del()
From: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
When cdev_add() failed there is no reason to call cdev_del().
Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/tty_io.c | 1 -
1 files changed, 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN drivers/char/tty_io.c~tty-remove-bogus-call-to-cdev_del drivers/char/tty_io.c
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c~tty-remove-bogus-call-to-cdev_del
+++ a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -3094,7 +3094,6 @@ int tty_register_driver(struct tty_drive
driver->cdev.owner = driver->owner;
error = cdev_add(&driver->cdev, dev, driver->num);
if (error) {
- cdev_del(&driver->cdev);
unregister_chrdev_region(dev, driver->num);
driver->ttys = NULL;
driver->termios = driver->termios_locked = NULL;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx are
tty-remove-bogus-call-to-cdev_del.patch
git-mtd.patch
add-kerneldocs-for-some-functions-in-mm-memoryc.patch
use-bug_onfoo-instead-of-if-foo-bug-in-include-asm-i386-dma-mappingh.patch
include-documentation-for-functions-in-drivers-base-classc.patch
fix-parameter-names-in-drivers-base-classc.patch
fix-kerneldoc-comments-in-kernel-timerc.patch
fix-kerneldoc-comments-in-kernel-timerc-fix.patch
move-valid_dma_direction-from-x86_64-to-generic-code.patch
move-valid_dma_direction-from-x86_64-to-generic-code-fix.patch
use-valid_dma_direction-in-include-asm-i386-dma-mappingh.patch
cdev-documentation-was-drop-second-arg-of-unregister_chrdev.patch
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