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Subject[patch 01/26] tlclk: fix handling of device major

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

tlclk calls register_chrdev() and permits register_chrdev() to allocate the
major, but it promptly forgets what that major was. So if there's no hardware
present you still get "telco_clock" appearing in /proc/devices and, I assume,
an oops reading /proc/devices if tlclk was a module.

Fix.

Mark, I'd suggest that that we not call register_chrdev() until _after_ we've
established that the hardware is present.

Cc: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---

drivers/char/tlclk.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- linux-2.6.16.1.orig/drivers/char/tlclk.c
+++ linux-2.6.16.1/drivers/char/tlclk.c
@@ -767,6 +767,7 @@ static int __init tlclk_init(void)
printk(KERN_ERR "tlclk: can't get major %d.\n", tlclk_major);
return ret;
}
+ tlclk_major = ret;
alarm_events = kzalloc( sizeof(struct tlclk_alarms), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!alarm_events)
goto out1;
--
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