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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] add sysfs misc device support [3/4]
    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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