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Message-ID: <20070906093844.GC8222@cs.unibo.it>
Date: Thu, 6 Sep 2007 11:38:44 +0200
From: renzo@...unibo.it (Renzo Davoli)
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: "Mathiasen, Torben" <Torben.Mathiasen@...com>
Subject: [PATCH] drivers/char/misc.c: deprecated call register_chrdev, and 256 minor limit eliminated
Dear Kernel Developers,
I have seen that drivers/char/misc.c already used the deprecated
register_chrdev call and this limited the number of minors to 256.
I recetly asked for a misc minor number attribution for View-OS/kmview
and Torben Mathiasen told me about this issue.
I propose this patch that eliminate both problems. With this patch
misc allocates the entire major 10 and avoids the deprecated call.
These are just my 2 (euro) cents, I hope it can be useful.
renzo
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