Re: [PATCH 4/8] tty: stop using alloc_tty_driver

From: Max Filippov
Date: Fri Jul 23 2021 - 06:30:56 EST


On Fri, Jul 23, 2021 at 12:43 AM Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> alloc_tty_driver was deprecated by tty_alloc_driver in commit
> 7f0bc6a68ed9 (TTY: pass flags to alloc_tty_driver) in 2012.
>
> I never got into eliminating alloc_tty_driver until now. So we still
> have two functions for allocating drivers which might be confusing. So
> get rid of alloc_tty_driver uses to eliminate it for good in the next
> patch.
>
> Note we need to switch return value checking as tty_alloc_driver uses
> ERR_PTR. And flags are now a parameter of tty_alloc_driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>

> arch/xtensa/platforms/iss/console.c | 7 +++----

Acked-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@xxxxxxxxx>

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Thanks.
-- Max