block: add documentation for register_blkdev()

Add documentation for register_blkdev() function and for the parameters.

Signed-off-by: Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Márton Németh 2009-02-20 08:12:51 +01:00 committed by Jens Axboe
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@ -256,6 +256,22 @@ void blkdev_show(struct seq_file *seqf, off_t offset)
}
#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
/**
* register_blkdev - register a new block device
*
* @major: the requested major device number [1..255]. If @major=0, try to
* allocate any unused major number.
* @name: the name of the new block device as a zero terminated string
*
* The @name must be unique within the system.
*
* The return value depends on the @major input parameter.
* - if a major device number was requested in range [1..255] then the
* function returns zero on success, or a negative error code
* - if any unused major number was requested with @major=0 parameter
* then the return value is the allocated major number in range
* [1..255] or a negative error code otherwise
*/
int register_blkdev(unsigned int major, const char *name)
{
struct blk_major_name **n, *p;