[PATCH] Introduce tty_unregister_ldisc()

It's a bit strange to see tty_register_ldisc call in modules' exit
functions.

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 24 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index 31831030f73f..cc4b43bad703 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ static void tty_set_termios_ldisc(struct tty_struct *tty, int num)
  
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(tty_ldisc_lock);
 static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(tty_ldisc_wait);
-static struct tty_ldisc tty_ldiscs[NR_LDISCS];  /* line disc dispatch table     */
+static struct tty_ldisc tty_ldiscs[NR_LDISCS];  /* line disc dispatch table */
 
 int tty_register_ldisc(int disc, struct tty_ldisc *new_ldisc)
 {
@@ -262,24 +262,35 @@ int tty_register_ldisc(int disc, struct tty_ldisc *new_ldisc)
                 return -EINVAL;
         
         spin_lock_irqsave(&tty_ldisc_lock, flags);
-        if (new_ldisc) {
-                tty_ldiscs[disc] = *new_ldisc;
-                tty_ldiscs[disc].num = disc;
-                tty_ldiscs[disc].flags |= LDISC_FLAG_DEFINED;
-                tty_ldiscs[disc].refcount = 0;
-        } else {
-                if(tty_ldiscs[disc].refcount)
-                        ret = -EBUSY;
-                else
-                        tty_ldiscs[disc].flags &= ~LDISC_FLAG_DEFINED;
-        }
+        tty_ldiscs[disc] = *new_ldisc;
+        tty_ldiscs[disc].num = disc;
+        tty_ldiscs[disc].flags |= LDISC_FLAG_DEFINED;
+        tty_ldiscs[disc].refcount = 0;
         spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty_ldisc_lock, flags);
         
         return ret;
 }
-
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_register_ldisc);
 
+int tty_unregister_ldisc(int disc)
+{
+        unsigned long flags;
+        int ret = 0;
+
+        if (disc < N_TTY || disc >= NR_LDISCS)
+                return -EINVAL;
+
+        spin_lock_irqsave(&tty_ldisc_lock, flags);
+        if (tty_ldiscs[disc].refcount)
+                ret = -EBUSY;
+        else
+                tty_ldiscs[disc].flags &= ~LDISC_FLAG_DEFINED;
+        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty_ldisc_lock, flags);
+
+        return ret;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_unregister_ldisc);
+
 struct tty_ldisc *tty_ldisc_get(int disc)
 {
         unsigned long flags;