Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 May 2009 21:59:10 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [patch 02/13] Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for misc devices. |
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On Mon 2009-05-18 07:34:06, Greg KH wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:58:56PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Sat 2009-05-09 07:26:03, Greg KH wrote: > > > From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> > > > > > > This adds support for misc devices to report their requested nodename to > > > userspace. It also updates a number of misc drivers to provide the > > > needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> > > > Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de> > > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> > > > > Maybe it would be better to assign stable minor/major numbers to those > > devices instead? minor/major number space is pretty big these days... > > That's up to the individual misc driver authors. Lots of them use the > dynamic option, so it's not like we can just ignore this very common > feature.
Well, you are willing to submit device names for individual drivers, so...
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