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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fpga: expand minor range when registering chrdev region
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On 2/12/19 6:54 PM, Moritz Fischer wrote:
> Hi Chengguang,
>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2019 at 10:25 PM Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@gmx.com> wrote:
>> Actually, total amount of available minor number
>> for a single major is MINORMARK + 1. So expand
> Typo. MINORMASK?

Yeah, it's a typo, should be MINORMASK.

>
>> minor range when registering chrdev region
> How does that manifest?

The output of /proc/devices only shows major so
I'm not sure is there an easy way to do that except
hacking the code to show minor range with major.

Thanks