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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>,
	pavel@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] swsusp: userland interface
Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2006 09:45:17 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060116174517.GA1121@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060115234300.159688f7.akpm@osdl.org>

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 11:43:00PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> > The patch assumes that the major and minor numbers of the snapshot device
> > will be 10 (ie. misc device) and 231, the registration of which has already been
> > requested.
> 
> Why does it need a statically-allocated major and minor?  misc_register()
> will generate a uevent and the device node should just appear...

Not everyone uses udev, so for things that are going to be in the kernel
tree, it's good to still register a major/minor number for them.

thanks,

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-16 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-15 17:31 [PATCH -mm] swsusp: userland interface Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-16  7:43 ` Andrew Morton
2006-01-16  9:48   ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-16 17:45   ` Greg KH [this message]

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