Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 13 Feb 2006 17:49:11 +0100 | From | Stefan Richter <> | Subject | Re: [RFC 2/4] firewire: dynamic cdev allocation below firewire major |
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Johannes Berg wrote: > Seems pretty weird to effectively allocate 256 device numbers > for just a single device, but ok :) > I'll drop the patch and make it allocate a new major for every device > plugged in.
Your driver could internally dispatch 256 minor device numbers after it got itself its own dynamic major number. This should even be acceptable as a hard limit of mem1394 devices. One would need quite a lot of 1394 cards (or 1394.1 bridges) to get access to 256 FireWire nodes at once. -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-==- --=- -==-= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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