From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
To: Robert Picco <Robert.Picco@hp.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HPET driver
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 17:41:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40D9F925.2000304@pobox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40D9F74A.9090508@hp.com>
Robert Picco wrote:
> Hi Andrew:
>
> I eliminated the request_irq brain damage, eliminated procfs support,
> made the check for FMODE_WRITE in hpet_open and responded to a few
> other suggestions.
Thanks! I'll look over it too.
> I misinterpreted your desire to change HPET from using a major device
> number and moving to miscdevice. I thought one objective was to avoid
> LANANA registration. It obviously isn't and I have done LANANA
> registration but need a reply. So it's possible the values for hpet in
> miscdevice.h and devices.txt will change.
The LANANA stuff propagates to 2.4 and to vendors who update their /dev
packages. You can't just pick an arbitrary number and use it. If
LANANA hasn't replied, the driver should use dynamic miscdev minor, or
dynamic chrdev major, until a number is assigned.
Jeff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-23 21:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200406181616.i5IGGECd003812@hera.kernel.org>
2004-06-18 20:57 ` [PATCH] HPET driver Jeff Garzik
2004-06-18 21:55 ` Andrew Morton
2004-06-18 22:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-23 21:34 ` Robert Picco
2004-06-23 21:41 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2004-06-23 22:23 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-13 22:34 Robert Picco
2004-05-13 23:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-13 23:42 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-13 23:46 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-13 23:49 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-14 11:19 ` Vojtech Pavlik
2004-05-14 16:59 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-17 22:33 ` Robert Picco
2004-05-17 22:39 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-17 22:43 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-17 23:05 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17 23:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-17 23:12 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17 23:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-17 23:25 ` Russell King
2004-05-17 23:41 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-17 23:33 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-17 23:42 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-18 1:46 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-18 1:59 ` Jeff Garzik
[not found] ` <16553.28862.590897.171478@napali.hpl.hp.com>
2004-05-20 2:01 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-05-13 23:18 ` Andrew Morton
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