From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755495AbZEROeV (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2009 10:34:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753161AbZEROeP (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2009 10:34:15 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:43996 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753006AbZEROeO (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2009 10:34:14 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 07:34:06 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Pavel Machek 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: <20090518143406.GB20476@kroah.com> References: <20090509142601.874865281@blue.kroah.org> <20090509143631.755885703@blue.kroah.org> <20090515195856.GD1353@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090515195856.GD1353@ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:58:56PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > 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... That's up to the individual misc driver authors. Lots of them use the dynamic option, so it's not like we can just ignore this very common feature. thanks, greg k-h