linux-kernel - Re: [patch 02/13] Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for misc devices.

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Message-ID: <20090518195908.GB1366@ucw.cz>
Date:	Mon, 18 May 2009 21:59:10 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@...y.org>,
	Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>
Subject: Re: [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@...y.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@...y.org>
> > > Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@...e.de>
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.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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