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authorJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>2012-10-18 22:26:30 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2012-10-22 16:50:13 -0700
commit1dcb8e6d1c23f2e021639199fdf64d5b42689207 (patch)
tree0d41e2e19ee7b029445f5b077f7dbd61f36913b2 /fs/devpts/inode.c
parentf11afb61247016162aa92225a337c1575556c9d9 (diff)
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TTY: devpts, document devpts inode operations
Add kernel-doc texts for some devpts functions, i.e. document them. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/devpts/inode.c')
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1 files changed, 21 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/devpts/inode.c b/fs/devpts/inode.c
index 7a20d67..472e6be 100644
--- a/fs/devpts/inode.c
+++ b/fs/devpts/inode.c
@@ -545,6 +545,15 @@ void devpts_kill_index(struct inode *ptmx_inode, int idx)
mutex_unlock(&allocated_ptys_lock);
}
+/**
+ * devpts_pty_new -- create a new inode in /dev/pts/
+ * @ptmx_inode: inode of the master
+ * @device: major+minor of the node to be created
+ * @index: used as a name of the node
+ * @priv: what's given back by devpts_get_priv
+ *
+ * The created inode is returned. Remove it from /dev/pts/ by devpts_pty_kill.
+ */
struct inode *devpts_pty_new(struct inode *ptmx_inode, dev_t device, int index,
void *priv)
{
@@ -585,6 +594,12 @@ struct inode *devpts_pty_new(struct inode *ptmx_inode, dev_t device, int index,
return inode;
}
+/**
+ * devpts_get_priv -- get private data for a slave
+ * @pts_inode: inode of the slave
+ *
+ * Returns whatever was passed as priv in devpts_pty_new for a given inode.
+ */
void *devpts_get_priv(struct inode *pts_inode)
{
struct dentry *dentry;
@@ -605,6 +620,12 @@ void *devpts_get_priv(struct inode *pts_inode)
return priv;
}
+/**
+ * devpts_pty_kill -- remove inode form /dev/pts/
+ * @inode: inode of the slave to be removed
+ *
+ * This is an inverse operation of devpts_pty_new.
+ */
void devpts_pty_kill(struct inode *inode)
{
struct super_block *sb = pts_sb_from_inode(inode);
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