The patch titled
Subject: fs/char_dev.c: fix incorrect documentation for unregister_chrdev_region
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fs-char_devc-fix-incorrect-documentation-for-unregister_chrdev_region.patch
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http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/fs-char_devc-fix-incorrect-documentation-for-unregister_chrdev_region.patch
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http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/fs-char_devc-fix-incorrect-documentation-for-unregister_chrdev_region.patch
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From: Partha Pratim Mukherjee <ppm.floss@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: fs/char_dev.c: fix incorrect documentation for unregister_chrdev_region
The current documentation for unregister_chrdev_region says that it return
a range of device numbers which is incorrect. Instead it unregister a
range of device numbers. Fix the documentation to make this clear.
Signed-off-by: Partha Pratim Mukherjee <ppm.floss@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/char_dev.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN fs/char_dev.c~fs-char_devc-fix-incorrect-documentation-for-unregister_chrdev_region fs/char_dev.c
--- a/fs/char_dev.c~fs-char_devc-fix-incorrect-documentation-for-unregister_chrdev_region
+++ a/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ out2:
}
/**
- * unregister_chrdev_region() - return a range of device numbers
+ * unregister_chrdev_region() - unregister a range of device numbers
* @from: the first in the range of numbers to unregister
* @count: the number of device numbers to unregister
*
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from ppm.floss@xxxxxxxxx are
fs-char_devc-fix-incorrect-documentation-for-unregister_chrdev_region.patch
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