[media] media: lirc_dev: introduce lirc_allocate_device and lirc_free_device

Introduce two new functions so that the API for lirc_dev matches that
of the rc-core and input subsystems.

This means that lirc_dev structs are managed using the usual four
functions:

lirc_allocate_device
lirc_free_device
lirc_register_device
lirc_unregister_device

The functions are pretty simplistic at this point, later patches will put
more flesh on the bones of both.

Signed-off-by: David Härdeman <david@hardeman.nu>
Signed-off-by: Sean Young <sean@mess.org>

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c b/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c
index e381a1c04bea..a6005f70de5a 100644
--- a/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c
+++ b/drivers/media/rc/lirc_dev.c
@@ -103,6 +103,19 @@ out:
 	return err;
 }
 
+struct lirc_dev *
+lirc_allocate_device(void)
+{
+	return kzalloc(sizeof(struct lirc_dev), GFP_KERNEL);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(lirc_allocate_device);
+
+void lirc_free_device(struct lirc_dev *d)
+{
+	kfree(d);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(lirc_free_device);
+
 int lirc_register_device(struct lirc_dev *d)
 {
 	struct irctl *ir;