Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 08 Mar 2003 15:11:42 +0000 |
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On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 00:50, Greg KH wrote: > > So we need a maxminors flag in the register for 2.6 I guess ? > > Do you mean to only increase the number of majors, and not minors then?
How about an interface that looks like
register_chr_device(blah. blah, MY_MAX_MINOR);
and we can delete all the if < 0 || >= MAX return logic from the drivers as we go. Right now each driver checks and several in the past had off by one errors.
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