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tlclk calls register_chrdev() and permits register_chrdev() to allocate the
major, but it promptly forgets what that major was.  So if there's no hardware
present you still get "telco_clock" appearing in /proc/devices and, I assume,
an oops reading /proc/devices if tlclk was a module.

Fix.

Mark, I'd suggest that that we not call register_chrdev() until _after_ we've
established that the hardware is present.

Cc: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

some driver clean ups, and a re-posting of changes that are needed

to match the updated TPS.
Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

I sent this out a couple of months ago and the driver author said it
he'd merge it. Nothing has happened since so I'm submitting it directly.

No functionality changes just texts.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

drivers/char/tlclk.c: In function `tlclk_init':
drivers/char/tlclk.c:775: warning: implicit declaration of function `platform_device_register_simple'
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>