linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/23] use register_chrdev

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Date:	Sat, 21 May 2011 10:59:10 +0300
From:	Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
To:	Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, gregkh@...e.de,
	Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@...erlog.com>,
	linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org, Benny Halevy <bhalevy@...asas.com>,
	osd-dev@...n-osd.org,
	Anil Ravindranath <anil_ravindranath@...-sierra.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/23] use register_chrdev_ids in drivers/scsi/

On 05/21/2011 07:21 AM, Jim Cromie wrote:
> On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 9:42 AM, Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com> wrote:
>> On 05/20/2011 12:33 AM, Jim Cromie wrote:
>>> cc: Doug Gilbert <dgilbert@...erlog.com>
>>> cc: linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
>>> cc: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@...asas.com>
>>> cc: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@...asas.com>
>>> cc: osd-dev@...n-osd.org
>>> cc: Anil Ravindranath <anil_ravindranath@...-sierra.com>
>>> cc: linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org
>>> Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@...il.com>
>>> ---
>>>  drivers/scsi/osd/osd_uld.c |    6 +++---
>>>  drivers/scsi/pmcraid.c     |    3 +--
>>>  drivers/scsi/sg.c          |    6 +++---
>>>  drivers/scsi/st.c          |    7 +++----
>>>  4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
>>
>> Do you have a git tree with all these that I can pull
>> and test?
>>
> 
> I do, its at git://github.com/jimc/linux-2.6.git  chrdev-pub1 branch
> 
> For you, I think there are 3 patches of interest
> 1 - adds new call, deprecates old.
> if you build with this applied and CONFIG_ENABLE_WARN_DEPRECATED=y
> you should get a deprecated warning
> 2 - reimplements alloc_chardev_region() with register_chardev_ids()
> your driver may be using register_chardev_region(), if so this is uninteresting.
> 3 - patch that adapts your scsi parts.
> 
>> Thanks
>> Boaz
>>
> 
> no, thank you
> Jim Cromie

Grate many thanks. I will test it next week and confirm.

Boaz
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