Re: [PATCH] fpga: expand minor range when registering chrdev region

[Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@ettus.com>]

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?

> minor range when registering chrdev region

How does that manifest?
>
> Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu519@gmx.com>
> ---
>  drivers/fpga/dfl.c | 6 +++---
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/fpga/dfl.c b/drivers/fpga/dfl.c
> index 2c09e502e721..02fff566be46 100644
> --- a/drivers/fpga/dfl.c
> +++ b/drivers/fpga/dfl.c
> @@ -315,7 +315,7 @@ static void dfl_chardev_uinit(void)
>         for (i = 0; i < DFL_FPGA_DEVT_MAX; i++)
>                 if (MAJOR(dfl_chrdevs[i].devt)) {
>                         unregister_chrdev_region(dfl_chrdevs[i].devt,
> -                                                MINORMASK);
> +                                                MINORMASK + 1);
>                         dfl_chrdevs[i].devt = MKDEV(0, 0);
>                 }
>  }
> @@ -325,8 +325,8 @@ static int dfl_chardev_init(void)
>         int i, ret;
>
>         for (i = 0; i < DFL_FPGA_DEVT_MAX; i++) {
> -               ret = alloc_chrdev_region(&dfl_chrdevs[i].devt, 0, MINORMASK,
> -                                         dfl_chrdevs[i].name);
> +               ret = alloc_chrdev_region(&dfl_chrdevs[i].devt, 0,
> +                                         MINORMASK + 1, dfl_chrdevs[i].name);
>                 if (ret)
>                         goto exit;
>         }
> --
> 2.20.1
>

Thanks,
Moritz