From: Taral <taral@taral.net>
To: Richard Gooch <rgooch@ras.ucalgary.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DEVFS_FL_AUTO_DEVNUM on block devices
Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 15:24:06 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010904152406.A5735@taral.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010904144605.A5496@taral.net> <200109042013.f84KDYD08203@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca>
In-Reply-To: <200109042013.f84KDYD08203@vindaloo.ras.ucalgary.ca>
On Tue, Sep 04, 2001 at 02:13:34PM -0600, Richard Gooch wrote:
> taral@taral.net writes:
> >
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> Please fix your mailer to not send this junk.
It's not junk, it's PGP/MIME. But I disabled it for you.
> You can use the devfs_alloc_major() function to grab a major number
> that won't conflict with another driver. Then use that major when
> calling devfs_register().
Sounds good to me. It might be wise, however, to disable use of
DEVFS_FL_AUTO_DEVNUM in devfs_register with block devices, since it's
not incredibly useful to have two different drivers sharing a major
number.
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Taral <taral@taral.net>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-04 20:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-04 19:46 DEVFS_FL_AUTO_DEVNUM on block devices Taral
2001-09-04 20:13 ` Richard Gooch
2001-09-04 20:24 ` Taral [this message]
2001-09-04 20:35 ` Richard Gooch
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