From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754436AbZERN2L (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2009 09:28:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752641AbZERN1y (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2009 09:27:54 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.193]:33142 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750950AbZERN1y (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2009 09:27:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 15 May 2009 21:58:56 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH , Kay Sievers , Jan Blunck Subject: Re: [patch 02/13] Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for misc devices. Message-ID: <20090515195856.GD1353@ucw.cz> References: <20090509142601.874865281@blue.kroah.org> <20090509143631.755885703@blue.kroah.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090509143631.755885703@blue.kroah.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sat 2009-05-09 07:26:03, Greg KH wrote: > From: Kay Sievers > > This adds support for misc devices to report their requested nodename to > userspace. It also updates a number of misc drivers to provide the > needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them. > > Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers > Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Maybe it would be better to assign stable minor/major numbers to those devices instead? minor/major number space is pretty big these days... -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html