From: Tejun H. <tj...@ke...> - 2008-11-22 07:29:46
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Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:05:40 +0900 Tejun Heo <tj...@ke...> wrote: > >> Miklos Szeredi wrote: >>> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Tejun Heo wrote: >>>> diff --git a/include/linux/miscdevice.h b/include/linux/miscdevice.h >>>> index 0be9245..d4dcca8 100644 >>>> --- a/include/linux/miscdevice.h >>>> +++ b/include/linux/miscdevice.h >>>> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ >>>> #define MPT_MINOR 220 >>>> #define HPET_MINOR 228 >>>> #define FUSE_MINOR 229 >>>> +#define CUSE_MINOR 230 >>> This doesn't work: device numbers have to be allocated by LANANA. >> My last attempt at LANANA for extended devt didn't get me anywhere and >> I'm not sure LANANA is handling miscdevice minors at all. > > No, I don't believe that miscdev minors are handled by lanana. > > otoh, we've added only one new miscdev minor since 2005. All the new > code is using dynamic allocation. Readers of your changelog and code > comments will be wondering why you didn't do so ;) Heh.. I suppose I was too attached to the module alias thing. I'll switch back to dynamic minor. -- tejun |