From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jean Delvare Subject: Ever-increasing serio device number Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2007 23:00:40 +0200 Message-ID: <20070621230040.79fe959d@hyperion.delvare> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: owner-linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Unsubscribe: To: linux-input@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz, Dmitry Torokhov List-Id: linux-input@vger.kernel.org Hi Dmitry, hi all, While developing my i2c-taos-evm driver [1], I noticed that my device was getting a new serio device number each time I cycled my driver. It started as serio2, and after an afternoon of testing, it was serio19. I'm curious, is this intended? I expected freed numbers to be reused, as i2c does. If this isn't supposed to happen, would this be a bug in the serio driver, or in my driver (maybe not releasing some resource properly)? Thanks. [1] http://lists.lm-sensors.org/pipermail/i2c/2007-June/001508.html -- Jean Delvare