From 533354d4ac48b7df99f18f952e5d51c3f59ba56c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 22:30:11 -0800
Subject: Misc: Add possibility to remove misc devices during suspend/resume

Make it possible to unregister a misc device object in a safe way during a
suspend/resume cycle.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 include/linux/miscdevice.h | 10 +++++++++-
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'include/linux/miscdevice.h')

diff --git a/include/linux/miscdevice.h b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
index dff9ea32606a..24b30b9b4f8a 100644
--- a/include/linux/miscdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
@@ -43,7 +43,15 @@ struct miscdevice  {
 };
 
 extern int misc_register(struct miscdevice * misc);
-extern int misc_deregister(struct miscdevice * misc);
+extern int __misc_deregister(struct miscdevice *misc, bool suspended);
+static inline int misc_deregister(struct miscdevice *misc)
+{
+	return __misc_deregister(misc, false);
+}
+static inline int misc_deregister_suspended(struct miscdevice *misc)
+{
+	return __misc_deregister(misc, true);
+}
 
 #define MODULE_ALIAS_MISCDEV(minor)				\
 	MODULE_ALIAS("char-major-" __stringify(MISC_MAJOR)	\
-- 
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