From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=3.0 tests=DKIMWL_WL_HIGH,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DE38C433E0 for ; Sat, 16 May 2020 07:01:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01D672065C for ; Sat, 16 May 2020 07:01:37 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1589612497; bh=pT8e+7o3TercEeuJfTZj5CiH2h8xBjPmu+OZSlMXKoE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:List-ID:From; b=0KV95d8tnZfyR3NwTg7YCttPFVTHEEb8ytF9SPqA2kd9ZkroC43UMHIHKQsFaQn+N PlnMp1uJSlLDVpcyace96obANfRwAorHVRWAopwV7wtk6Gy9VM3SSFhXMEkO3lxk5y /n6OUZYD3OeGh5iUIcjwMZPICIYUM+QlqSENY0uQ= Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726208AbgEPHBg (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 May 2020 03:01:36 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:42216 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725275AbgEPHBg (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 May 2020 03:01:36 -0400 Received: from localhost (83-86-89-107.cable.dynamic.v4.ziggo.nl [83.86.89.107]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E3C142065C; Sat, 16 May 2020 07:01:33 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=default; t=1589612494; bh=pT8e+7o3TercEeuJfTZj5CiH2h8xBjPmu+OZSlMXKoE=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:References:In-Reply-To:From; b=gFYicTCZOTybYHNii6SO9Ip7WlV4TNvEH1j2OckSYViR962JwC11BP1mzY8DL0W/d kmaF8iBegT3WqLVX8zd9zGxLbBryXbSMCGu8QHCkOJzLS9gxW92x9V5Qqz6/MX4MI5 LXt/gyWFds9pprvUYuBKHAmHPnqzHndQMvj1MOPE= Date: Sat, 16 May 2020 09:01:31 +0200 From: Greg KH To: Jeffrey Hugo Cc: arnd@arndb.de, manivannan.sadhasivam@linaro.org, bjorn.andersson@linaro.org, wufan@codeaurora.org, pratanan@codeaurora.org, linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/8] qaic: Create char dev Message-ID: <20200516070131.GB3964535@kroah.com> References: <1589465266-20056-1-git-send-email-jhugo@codeaurora.org> <1589465266-20056-4-git-send-email-jhugo@codeaurora.org> <20200514141211.GA2643665@kroah.com> <0421a64a-10f3-08df-9ef1-14fdb570db0d@codeaurora.org> <20200514155615.GA2963499@kroah.com> <4be546d3-b571-0659-0140-f34ec88f95ff@codeaurora.org> <4683046a-c6b5-30a5-ef02-2f610523ae1c@codeaurora.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4683046a-c6b5-30a5-ef02-2f610523ae1c@codeaurora.org> Sender: linux-arm-msm-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-arm-msm@vger.kernel.org On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 03:08:59PM -0600, Jeffrey Hugo wrote: > 2. There are a limited number of dynamic minor numbers for misc devs (64), > so if you are expecting more devices than that, a misc dev is not > appropiate. Also, these minors are shared with other misc dev users, so > depending on the system configuration, you might have significantly less > than 64 minors available for use. I'm pretty sure we can have more than 64 misc devices, that limitation should have been removed a while ago. Try it and see :) greg k-h