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SubjectRe: [patch 02/13] Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for misc devices.
On Sat 2009-05-09 07:26:03, Greg KH wrote:
> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
>
> This adds support for misc devices to report their requested nodename to
> userspace. It also updates a number of misc drivers to provide the
> needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Maybe it would be better to assign stable minor/major numbers to those
devices instead? minor/major number space is pretty big these days...

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