try harder to load tty ldisc driver
Currently function tty_ldisc_get() tries to load an ldisc driver module
only when tty_ldisc_try_get() returns -EAGAIN. This happens only if
module is being unloaded. If ldisc module is not loaded
tty_ldisc_try_get() returns -EINVAL and this case is not handled in
tty_ldisc_get(), so request_module() is not called.
Attached patch fixes this by calling request_module() if
tty_ldisc_try_get() returned any error code.
I discovered this when my UMTS modem stopped working with 2.6.27-rc1
because module ppp_async was not loaded.
Signed-off-by: Eugeniy Meshcheryakov <eugen@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c b/drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c
index 241cbde..f307f13 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@
if (disc < N_TTY || disc >= NR_LDISCS)
return -EINVAL;
err = tty_ldisc_try_get(disc, ld);
- if (err == -EAGAIN) {
+ if (err < 0) {
request_module("tty-ldisc-%d", disc);
err = tty_ldisc_try_get(disc, ld);
}