From: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] tty_io: add an API to get device corresponding to tty_struct
Date: Fri, 6 Aug 2010 20:29:28 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1281112169-27086-1-git-send-email-dbaryshkov@gmail.com> (raw)
Some device drivers (mostly tty line disciplines) would like to have way
to get a struct device instancve corresponding to passed tty_struct. Add
respective API call.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov <dbaryshkov@gmail.com>
---
drivers/char/tty_io.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++
include/linux/tty.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index d71f0fc..43fdeef 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -3017,6 +3017,26 @@ dev_t tty_devnum(struct tty_struct *tty)
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_devnum);
+static int dev_match_devt(struct device *dev, void *data)
+{
+ dev_t *devt = data;
+ return dev->devt == *devt;
+}
+
+/**
+ * tty_get_device - get a device corresponding to tty
+ * @tty: the struct that describes the tty device
+ *
+ * Returns a pointer to the struct device for this tty device
+ * (or NULL in case of error).
+ */
+struct device *tty_get_device(struct tty_struct *tty)
+{
+ dev_t devt = tty_devnum(tty);
+ return class_find_device(tty_class, NULL, &devt, dev_match_devt);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_get_device);
+
void proc_clear_tty(struct task_struct *p)
{
unsigned long flags;
diff --git a/include/linux/tty.h b/include/linux/tty.h
index 931078b..5038433 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty.h
@@ -451,6 +451,7 @@ extern int tty_mode_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file,
unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg);
extern int tty_perform_flush(struct tty_struct *tty, unsigned long arg);
extern dev_t tty_devnum(struct tty_struct *tty);
+struct device *tty_get_device(struct tty_struct *tty);
extern void proc_clear_tty(struct task_struct *p);
extern struct tty_struct *get_current_tty(void);
extern void tty_default_fops(struct file_operations *fops);
--
1.7.1
next reply other threads:[~2010-08-06 16:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-06 16:29 Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov [this message]
2010-08-06 16:29 ` [PATCH 2/2] serport: place serport serio device correctly in the device tree Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2010-08-06 16:57 ` Greg KH
2010-08-07 9:55 ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2010-08-06 16:58 ` [PATCH 1/2] tty_io: add an API to get device corresponding to tty_struct Greg KH
2010-08-07 9:55 ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2010-08-07 11:33 ` Alan Cox
2010-08-08 0:38 ` Dmitry Eremin-Solenikov
2010-08-08 12:56 ` Alan Cox
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