tty: More driver operations
We have the lookup operation abstracted which is nice for pty cleanup but
we really want to abstract the add/remove entries as well so that we can
pull the pty code out of the tty core and create a clear defined interface
for the tty driver table.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/tty_driver.h b/include/linux/tty_driver.h
index ba891dd..005d06a 100644
--- a/include/linux/tty_driver.h
+++ b/include/linux/tty_driver.h
@@ -15,6 +15,20 @@
*
* Optional method. Default behaviour is to use the ttys array
*
+ * int (*install)(struct tty_driver *self, struct tty_struct *tty)
+ *
+ * Install a new tty into the tty driver internal tables. Used in
+ * conjunction with lookup and remove methods.
+ *
+ * Optional method. Default behaviour is to use the ttys array
+ *
+ * void (*remove)(struct tty_driver *self, struct tty_struct *tty)
+ *
+ * Remove a closed tty from the tty driver internal tables. Used in
+ * conjunction with lookup and remove methods.
+ *
+ * Optional method. Default behaviour is to use the ttys array
+ *
* int (*open)(struct tty_struct * tty, struct file * filp);
*
* This routine is called when a particular tty device is opened.
@@ -212,6 +226,8 @@
struct tty_operations {
struct tty_struct * (*lookup)(struct tty_driver *driver, int idx);
+ int (*install)(struct tty_driver *driver, struct tty_struct *tty);
+ void (*remove)(struct tty_driver *driver, struct tty_struct *tty);
int (*open)(struct tty_struct * tty, struct file * filp);
void (*close)(struct tty_struct * tty, struct file * filp);
void (*shutdown)(struct tty_struct *tty);