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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [KJ] replacing all "register_chrdev" with newer calls?
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:41:44 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070323184144.GA6529@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0703230928050.8701@CPE00045a9c397f-CM001225dbafb6>

On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:32:50AM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   not sure if this is worth it, but is there any value to replacing
> the old-style register_chrdev() calls with the newer
> register_chrdev_region() calls?
> 
>   it's not as if the register_chrdev() routine has been marked for
> deletion anytime soon, so it may be easier to leave it as is.

I'd say leave it alone for now.

thanks,

greg k-h
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Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-23 13:32 [KJ] replacing all "register_chrdev" with newer calls? Robert P. J. Day
2007-03-23 18:41 ` Greg KH [this message]

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