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

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Message-ID: <20090518212801.653c3bf0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 18 May 2009 21:28:01 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
Cc:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, 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 Fri, 15 May 2009 21:58:56 +0200
Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> 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...

More to the point we already have /proc/misc
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