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authorPaul Gortmaker2016-10-22 18:36:05 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman2016-10-28 08:22:11 -0400
commitf71082f815bf0b9599b97546cf1dd057c789c3c1 (patch)
tree7bb4104124f684d53ce578d9d12e952271083616 /include/linux
parent1e4edb3fe93ff9f7b678a8f1b8d9df717edf6ad9 (diff)
miscdevice: introduce builtin_misc_device
This is basically the same as module_misc_device but without the presence of an exit/remove function. Similar in nature to the commit f309d4443130bf814e991f836e919dca22df37ae ("platform_device: better support builtin boilerplate avoidance"). Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/miscdevice.h7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/miscdevice.h b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
index 722698a43d79..a426cb55dc43 100644
--- a/include/linux/miscdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
@@ -72,6 +72,13 @@ extern int misc_register(struct miscdevice *misc);
extern void misc_deregister(struct miscdevice *misc);
/*
+ * Helper macro for drivers that don't do anything special in the initcall.
+ * This helps in eleminating of boilerplate code.
+ */
+#define builtin_misc_device(__misc_device) \
+ builtin_driver(__misc_device, misc_register)
+
+/*
* Helper macro for drivers that don't do anything special in module init / exit
* call. This helps in eleminating of boilerplate code.
*/