pps: Add pps_lookup_dev() function
authorGeorge Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Sun, 10 Feb 2013 09:08:32 +0000 (04:08 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 13 Feb 2013 17:40:35 +0000 (09:40 -0800)
commit513b032c98b4b9414aa4e9b4a315cb1bf0380101
tree3483659abdcc63cb831bf9ded62e981de3ffd5e3
parent6d53c3b71d32da665dc2742c1e8663741f27d3cd
pps: Add pps_lookup_dev() function

The PPS serial line discipline wants to attach a PPS device to a tty
without changing the tty code to add a struct pps_device * pointer.

Since the number of PPS devices in a typical system is generally very low
(n=1 is by far the most common), it's practical to search the entire list
of allocated pps devices.  (We capture the timestamp before the lookup,
so the timing isn't affected.)

It is a bit ugly that this function, which is part of the in-kernel
PPS API, has to be in pps.c as opposed to kapi,c, but that's not
something that affects users.

Signed-off-by: George Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@enneenne.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/pps/pps.c
include/linux/pps_kernel.h