[PATCH] Register tty_devclass before use

[Russell King]

Hi,

The following patch (against vanilla 2.5.64) registers the tty devclass
with sysfs before any drivers can use it - sysfs requires structures to
be registered before use.

The patch applies to bk-curr with offset.

--- orig/drivers/char/tty_io.c	Wed Mar  5 19:45:15 2003
+++ linux/drivers/char/tty_io.c	Sat Mar  8 12:01:41 2003
@@ -2307,14 +2307,19 @@
 };
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(tty_devclass);
 
+static int __init tty_devclass_init(void)
+{
+	return devclass_register(&tty_devclass);
+}
+
+postcore_initcall(tty_devclass_init);
+
 /*
  * Ok, now we can initialize the rest of the tty devices and can count
  * on memory allocations, interrupts etc..
  */
 void __init tty_init(void)
 {
-	devclass_register(&tty_devclass);
-
 	/*
 	 * dev_tty_driver and dev_console_driver are actually magic
 	 * devices which get redirected at open time.  Nevertheless,

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