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authorMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>2015-09-16 20:44:25 +0100
committerMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>2015-09-16 20:44:25 +0100
commit92243b6fc8fcb16bf401b055f7a0ba79f70a4115 (patch)
tree08e9fa205efb9bfab23b6ea59fc0a3eaa3fed82b /drivers/char/misc.c
parenta394d635193b641f2c86ead5ada5b115d57c51f8 (diff)
parent6ff33f3902c3b1c5d0db6b1e2c70b6d76fba357f (diff)
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Merge tag 'v4.3-rc1' into spi-fix-doc
Linux 4.3-rc1
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char/misc.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/misc.c17
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c
index fdb0f9b3fe45..8069b361b8dd 100644
--- a/drivers/char/misc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/misc.c
@@ -243,17 +243,15 @@ int misc_register(struct miscdevice * misc)
* @misc: device to unregister
*
* Unregister a miscellaneous device that was previously
- * successfully registered with misc_register(). Success
- * is indicated by a zero return, a negative errno code
- * indicates an error.
+ * successfully registered with misc_register().
*/
-int misc_deregister(struct miscdevice *misc)
+void misc_deregister(struct miscdevice *misc)
{
int i = DYNAMIC_MINORS - misc->minor - 1;
if (WARN_ON(list_empty(&misc->list)))
- return -EINVAL;
+ return;
mutex_lock(&misc_mtx);
list_del(&misc->list);
@@ -261,7 +259,6 @@ int misc_deregister(struct miscdevice *misc)
if (i < DYNAMIC_MINORS && i >= 0)
clear_bit(i, misc_minors);
mutex_unlock(&misc_mtx);
- return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(misc_register);
@@ -281,10 +278,9 @@ static char *misc_devnode(struct device *dev, umode_t *mode)
static int __init misc_init(void)
{
int err;
+ struct proc_dir_entry *ret;
-#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
- proc_create("misc", 0, NULL, &misc_proc_fops);
-#endif
+ ret = proc_create("misc", 0, NULL, &misc_proc_fops);
misc_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "misc");
err = PTR_ERR(misc_class);
if (IS_ERR(misc_class))
@@ -300,7 +296,8 @@ fail_printk:
printk("unable to get major %d for misc devices\n", MISC_MAJOR);
class_destroy(misc_class);
fail_remove:
- remove_proc_entry("misc", NULL);
+ if (ret)
+ remove_proc_entry("misc", NULL);
return err;
}
subsys_initcall(misc_init);