Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 23 Dec 2003 13:16:58 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] add sysfs misc device support [3/4] |
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 04:28:00PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > This adds /sys/class/mem which enables all misc char devices to show up > properly in udev. > > Note, the misc_init() call has been moved to a subsys_initcall as it > seems there are a lot of platform specific misc devices that are calling > misc_register before misc_init() is called. > > Has been posted to lkml a few times in the past and tested by a wide > range of people.
So how are misc devices a device class now? This is just a random coolection of drivers that traditionally didn't have their own major. Killing misc devices sounds like abetter plan than codifying this in sysfs..
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