Merge tag 'tty-3.14-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty

Pull TTY revert from Greg KH:
 "Here is a single commit, a revert of a sysfs file change that ended up
  breaking a userspace tool"

* tag 'tty-3.14-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty:
  Revert "tty: Set correct tty name in 'active' sysfs attribute"

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 20 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-tty b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-tty
index a2ccec35ffc..ad22fb0ee76 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-tty
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-tty
@@ -3,8 +3,7 @@ Date:		Nov 2010
 Contact:	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
 Description:
 		 Shows the list of currently configured
-		 tty devices used for the console,
-		 like 'tty1 ttyS0'.
+		 console devices, like 'tty1 ttyS0'.
 		 The last entry in the file is the active
 		 device connected to /dev/console.
 		 The file supports poll() to detect virtual
diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
index bd2715a9d8e..c74a00ad7ad 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_io.c
@@ -1267,17 +1267,16 @@ static void pty_line_name(struct tty_driver *driver, int index, char *p)
  *	@p: output buffer of at least 7 bytes
  *
  *	Generate a name from a driver reference and write it to the output
- *	buffer. Return the number of bytes written.
+ *	buffer.
  *
  *	Locking: None
  */
-static ssize_t tty_line_name(struct tty_driver *driver, int index, char *p)
+static void tty_line_name(struct tty_driver *driver, int index, char *p)
 {
 	if (driver->flags & TTY_DRIVER_UNNUMBERED_NODE)
-		return sprintf(p, "%s", driver->name);
+		strcpy(p, driver->name);
 	else
-		return sprintf(p, "%s%d", driver->name,
-			       index + driver->name_base);
+		sprintf(p, "%s%d", driver->name, index + driver->name_base);
 }
 
 /**
@@ -3546,19 +3545,9 @@ static ssize_t show_cons_active(struct device *dev,
 		if (i >= ARRAY_SIZE(cs))
 			break;
 	}
-	while (i--) {
-		struct tty_driver *driver;
-		const char *name = cs[i]->name;
-		int index = cs[i]->index;
-
-		driver = cs[i]->device(cs[i], &index);
-		if (driver) {
-			count += tty_line_name(driver, index, buf + count);
-			count += sprintf(buf + count, "%c", i ? ' ':'\n');
-		} else
-			count += sprintf(buf + count, "%s%d%c",
-					 name, index, i ? ' ':'\n');
-	}
+	while (i--)
+		count += sprintf(buf + count, "%s%d%c",
+				 cs[i]->name, cs[i]->index, i ? ' ':'\n');
 	console_unlock();
 
 	return count;