linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drivers: uio: Fix UIO device registration failure

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Date:	Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:47:33 -0700
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	hjk@...sjkoch.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Damian Hobson-Garcia <dhobsong@...l.co.jp>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: uio: Fix UIO device registration failure

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 10:31:22AM +0900, Damian Hobson-Garcia wrote:
> Until recently uio_get_minor() returned 0 for success and
> a negative value on failure.  This became non-negative for suceess and
> negative for failure.  Restore the original return value spec so that we can
> successfully initialize UIO devices with a non-zero minor device
> number.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Damian Hobson-Garcia <dhobsong@...l.co.jp>
> ---
>  drivers/uio/uio.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Hans, don't you have a bunch of uio patches queued up for me?  I've been
ignoring them, thinking you are collecting them, is this not true?

greg k-h
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