Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 18 May 2009 21:28:01 +0100 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [patch 02/13] Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for misc devices. |
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On Fri, 15 May 2009 21:58:56 +0200 Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> 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...
More to the point we already have /proc/misc
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