linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] char: misc: increase DYNAMIC

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Date:   Thu, 29 Oct 2020 08:05:52 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Sangmoon Kim <sangmoon.kim@...sung.com>
Cc:     arnd@...db.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] char: misc: increase DYNAMIC_MINORS value

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 03:28:55PM +0900, Sangmoon Kim wrote:
> DYNAMIC_MINORS value has been set to 64.
> Due to this reason, we are facing a module loading fail problem of
> device driver like below.
> 
>  [   45.712771] pdic_misc_init - return error : -16
> 
> We need to increase this value for registering more misc devices.

That's a lot of misc devices, nice to see it used more now :)

I'll go queue this up, thanks!

greg k-h