The patch titled
unregister_chrdev() return void
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
unregister_chrdev-return-void.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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Subject: unregister_chrdev() return void
From: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>
unregister_chrdev() does not return meaningful value. This patch makes it
return void like most unregister_* functions.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/char_dev.c | 3 +--
include/linux/fs.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/char_dev.c~unregister_chrdev-return-void fs/char_dev.c
--- a/fs/char_dev.c~unregister_chrdev-return-void
+++ a/fs/char_dev.c
@@ -321,14 +321,13 @@ void unregister_chrdev_region(dev_t from
}
}
-int unregister_chrdev(unsigned int major, const char *name)
+void unregister_chrdev(unsigned int major, const char *name)
{
struct char_device_struct *cd;
cd = __unregister_chrdev_region(major, 0, 256);
if (cd && cd->cdev)
cdev_del(cd->cdev);
kfree(cd);
- return 0;
}
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(cdev_lock);
diff -puN include/linux/fs.h~unregister_chrdev-return-void include/linux/fs.h
--- a/include/linux/fs.h~unregister_chrdev-return-void
+++ a/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1463,7 +1463,7 @@ extern int alloc_chrdev_region(dev_t *,
extern int register_chrdev_region(dev_t, unsigned, const char *);
extern int register_chrdev(unsigned int, const char *,
const struct file_operations *);
-extern int unregister_chrdev(unsigned int, const char *);
+extern void unregister_chrdev(unsigned int, const char *);
extern void unregister_chrdev_region(dev_t, unsigned);
extern int chrdev_open(struct inode *, struct file *);
extern void chrdev_show(struct seq_file *,off_t);
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from akinobu.mita@xxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
auth_gss-unregister-gss_domain-when-unloading-module.patch
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