Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Nov 2008 17:48:27 +0900 | From | Tejun Heo <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 5/5] CUSE: implement CUSE - Character device in Userspace |
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Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Sat, 22 Nov 2008, Tejun Heo wrote: >> Miklos Szeredi wrote: >>> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Tejun Heo wrote: >>>> diff --git a/include/linux/miscdevice.h b/include/linux/miscdevice.h >>>> index 0be9245..d4dcca8 100644 >>>> --- a/include/linux/miscdevice.h >>>> +++ b/include/linux/miscdevice.h >>>> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@ >>>> #define MPT_MINOR 220 >>>> #define HPET_MINOR 228 >>>> #define FUSE_MINOR 229 >>>> +#define CUSE_MINOR 230 >>> This doesn't work: device numbers have to be allocated by LANANA. >> My last attempt at LANANA for extended devt didn't get me anywhere and >> I'm not sure LANANA is handling miscdevice minors at all. > > Back then I did get the fuse device registered in LANANA database > (http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/devices-2.6+.txt)
I switched it back to dynamic minor, so it's a non-issue now.
>> If you go >> through the tree, there are quite a few duplicate allocations including >> FUSE_MINOR. At any rate, we can definitely try LANANA. > > Ugh, I suppose that's my fault for not putting the definition in > miscdevice.h (though apparently the duplicates didn't do so either).
Miscdevice minors are spread all over the place especially under archs. I tried to move all of them into miscdevice.h but I got scared by the dups. :-)
Thanks.
-- tejun
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