Merge branch 'topic/soundcore-preclaim' into for-linus

* topic/soundcore-preclaim:
  sound: make OSS device number claiming optional and schedule its removal
  sound: request char-major-* module aliases for missing OSS devices
  chrdev: implement __[un]register_chrdev()

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 73e9b643e455..3972ffb597c5 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -1998,12 +1998,25 @@ extern void bd_release_from_disk(struct block_device *, struct gendisk *);
 #define CHRDEV_MAJOR_HASH_SIZE  255
 extern int alloc_chrdev_region(dev_t *, unsigned, unsigned, const char *);
 extern int register_chrdev_region(dev_t, unsigned, const char *);
-extern int register_chrdev(unsigned int, const char *,
-                           const struct file_operations *);
-extern void unregister_chrdev(unsigned int, const char *);
+extern int __register_chrdev(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
+                             unsigned int count, const char *name,
+                             const struct file_operations *fops);
+extern void __unregister_chrdev(unsigned int major, unsigned int baseminor,
+                                unsigned int count, const char *name);
 extern void unregister_chrdev_region(dev_t, unsigned);
 extern void chrdev_show(struct seq_file *,off_t);
 
+static inline int register_chrdev(unsigned int major, const char *name,
+                                  const struct file_operations *fops)
+{
+        return __register_chrdev(major, 0, 256, name, fops);
+}
+
+static inline void unregister_chrdev(unsigned int major, const char *name)
+{
+        __unregister_chrdev(major, 0, 256, name);
+}
+
 /* fs/block_dev.c */
 #define BDEVNAME_SIZE   32      /* Largest string for a blockdev identifier */
 #define BDEVT_SIZE      10      /* Largest string for MAJ:MIN for blkdev */