Re: [PATCH] staging: unisys: handle major number properly

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 10:04:40PM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 08:31:24PM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
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>
> This doesn't apply anymore, due to other changes recently to this
> driver.
>
> But even if it did, I don't think it is correct.  I really don't
> understand what you are trying to do here.  I think you just merged two
> different major numbers togther, which isn't good at all.  But if you
> didn't, then why is this patch doing different things to different files
> (hint, only do one thing per file.)
>
> Also, why does the driver have multiple major numbers?  Isn't a single
> major good enough?  How many does it need?  For what does it use them
> for?

but, according to my understanding the driver is having only one major
number. visorchipset_major is the major number defined in
visorchipset_main.c as a module parameter. The original code in
visorchipset_main.c was creating dev_t from this major number and
calling the function visorchipset_file_init(), which is in file.c
with the dev_t as an argument.

Now visorchipset_file_init(), it is registering that dev_t as a
char driver and  storing it in a static variable so that it can reuse
that dev_t in visorchipset_file_cleanup().

My patch is just passing the major and minor number as argument to
visorchipset_file_init() which is creating that dev_t while registering.
and instead of storing it again as a static variable i am using
Visorchipset_platform_device.dev.devt while calling the cleanup().

now since all are related to only one change so it all came in a single
patch.

is my understanding correct or am i missing something here?

regards
sudip


>
> Totally confused,
>
> greg k-h