The patch titled tty: remove bogus call to cdev_del() has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename is tty-remove-bogus-call-to-cdev_del.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ 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 file 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 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 return-better-error-codes-if-drivers-char-rawc-module-init-fails.patch - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html