tty: kref the tty driver object
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/tty_driver.h b/include/linux/tty_driver.h
index 2c5c35c..ba891dd 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty_driver.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty_driver.h
@@ -253,6 +253,7 @@
struct tty_driver {
int magic; /* magic number for this structure */
+ struct kref kref; /* Reference management */
struct cdev cdev;
struct module *owner;
const char *driver_name;
@@ -266,7 +267,6 @@
short subtype; /* subtype of tty driver */
struct ktermios init_termios; /* Initial termios */
int flags; /* tty driver flags */
- int refcount; /* for loadable tty drivers */
struct proc_dir_entry *proc_entry; /* /proc fs entry */
struct tty_driver *other; /* only used for the PTY driver */
@@ -288,12 +288,19 @@
extern struct list_head tty_drivers;
-struct tty_driver *alloc_tty_driver(int lines);
-void put_tty_driver(struct tty_driver *driver);
-void tty_set_operations(struct tty_driver *driver,
+extern struct tty_driver *alloc_tty_driver(int lines);
+extern void put_tty_driver(struct tty_driver *driver);
+extern void tty_set_operations(struct tty_driver *driver,
const struct tty_operations *op);
extern struct tty_driver *tty_find_polling_driver(char *name, int *line);
+extern void tty_driver_kref_put(struct tty_driver *driver);
+extern inline struct tty_driver *tty_driver_kref_get(struct tty_driver *d)
+{
+ kref_get(&d->kref);
+ return d;
+}
+
/* tty driver magic number */
#define TTY_DRIVER_MAGIC 0x5402