From: "Németh Márton" <nm127@freemail.hu>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, ltp-list@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: [PATCH] block: add documentation for register_blkdev()
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:04:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <499E4804.3030703@freemail.hu> (raw)
From: Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu>
Add documentation for register_blkdev() function and for the parameters.
Signed-off-by: Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
--- linux-2.6.29-rc5/block/genhd.c.orig 2009-02-14 18:36:39.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.29-rc5/block/genhd.c 2009-02-20 06:53:56.000000000 +0100
@@ -256,6 +256,22 @@ void blkdev_show(struct seq_file *seqf,
}
#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
+/**
+ * register_blkdev - register a new block device
+ *
+ * @major: the requested major device number [1..255]. If @major=0, try to
+ * allocate any unused major number.
+ * @name: the name of the new block device as a zero terminated string
+ *
+ * The @name must be unique within the system.
+ *
+ * The return value depends on the @major input parameter.
+ * - if a major device number was requested in range [1..255] then the
+ * function returns zero on success, or a negative error code
+ * - if any unused major number was requested with @major=0 parameter
+ * then the return value is the allocated major number in range
+ * [1..255] or a negative error code otherwise
+ */
int register_blkdev(unsigned int major, const char *name)
{
struct blk_major_name **n, *p;
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2009-02-20 6:04 Németh Márton [this message]
2009-02-20 7:12 ` Jens Axboe
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