Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:41:14 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/3] misc: use a proper range for minor number dynamic allocation |
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On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 23:37:38 +0000 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > > I merged this patch, but made a note-to-self that there are remaining > > > open issues.. > > > > And nothing else happened. Can we revisit this please? > > The last I saw was a request for an explanation of the users > configuration and how he was getting so many misc devices. Its a bug in > dlm if the dlm is doing that but I didn't see any follow up to the DLM > folks on the subject from the reporter, so it stays NACKed and conflicts > with the device registry. > > We need to know from the DLM folks/Thaddeu what is actually going on with > that system, especially as it seems to be producing multiple > registrations of the same misc device name which is completely broken and > should probably be made to error anyway. > > Whatever is going on this is the wrong "fix". If DLM should only register > it once (as seems the intent) then DLM needs fixing or the users config > or both. If it can register many then DLM needs fixing to not eat misc > devices. > > <eviltwin>Possibly we need to make it BUG_ON() adding the same name twice, then > perhaps we'd get more feedback</eviltwin> >
OK, thanks, I dropped it. We can always reappyly it (or a variant) once this is all sorted out.
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