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SubjectRe: [patch 02/13] Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for misc devices.
On Mon 2009-05-18 07:34:06, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:58:56PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > 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...
>
> That's up to the individual misc driver authors. Lots of them use the
> dynamic option, so it's not like we can just ignore this very common
> feature.

Well, you are willing to submit device names for individual drivers,
so...

Pavel
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