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Message-ID: <20090806195848.GA29827@kroah.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 12:58:48 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
To: Tejun Heo <teheo@...e.de>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@...e.de>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
cguthrie@...driva.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] chrdev: implement __[un]register_chrdev()
On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 05:13:31PM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:
> Tejun Heo wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Greg KH wrote:
> >> Yes the names are confusing, the whole api needs a rework to make it
> >> easier to understand :(
> >
> > For now, I'll open code it then but it would be really nice to clean
> > the names up.
>
> Crap, there's a difference. For [un]register_chrdev() the chrdev
> layer keeps track of cdev while using cdev_alloc/add/del() directly
> requires the caller to keep track of the pointer. Also, it's a bit of
> pain to open code the whole thing.
>
> For now, it looks like adding the __ prefixed versions seems to be the
> proper solution. It's strange to provide the helper interface only
> for full minor acquisitions anyway. Let's do naming cleanup later.
> How does that sound?
Well, what's the odds that I can get you to do cleanup now? :)
Sure, I'll take this, only if Takashi wants the other stuff that depends
on it. Let me know.
thanks,
greg k-h
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