From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Pierre Ossman <drzeus-list@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: MMC block major dev
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 13:18:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1094041098.2476.58.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4134CDF0.7070600@drzeus.cx>
On Maw, 2004-08-31 at 20:13, Pierre Ossman wrote:
> Some debug statements revealed that the driver ended up on major number
> 254. I'm not familiar with how kernel memory is initialized but using an
> uninitialized variable should result in random numbers. It seems to get
> 254 each time though. Can I count on this? (i.e. can I safely create
> device node files with this major).
No.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-01 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-31 19:13 MMC block major dev Pierre Ossman
2004-08-31 19:15 ` Russell King
2004-08-31 19:47 ` Pierre Ossman
2004-09-01 12:16 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-01 21:55 ` Russell King
2004-09-01 21:28 ` Alan Cox
2004-09-01 12:18 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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