This patch replaces call to tty_open_by_driver with a tty_kopen and uses tty_kclose instead of tty_release_struct to close it.
Signed-off-by: Okash Khawaja <okash.khaw...@gmail.com> --- drivers/staging/speakup/spk_ttyio.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/staging/speakup/spk_ttyio.c +++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/spk_ttyio.c @@ -158,7 +158,7 @@ static int spk_ttyio_initialise_ldisc(st if (ret) return ret; - tty = tty_open_by_driver(dev, NULL, NULL); + tty = tty_kopen(dev); if (IS_ERR(tty)) return PTR_ERR(tty); @@ -308,7 +308,7 @@ void spk_ttyio_release(void) tty_ldisc_flush(speakup_tty); tty_unlock(speakup_tty); - tty_release_struct(speakup_tty, speakup_tty->index); + tty_kclose(speakup_tty); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(spk_ttyio_release);