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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] UBI: add UBI control device
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On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 16:51 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> A major number gives you a space of 2**32 devices, where you would only
> need a single device.=20
> If you just call misc_register(), you get the exact same semantics for
> /dev/ubi_ctrl, but need less code.

Err, this is not really appropriate - it registers my device under
"misc" class...

--=20
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Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E=D1=86=D0=BA=D0=B8=D0=B9 =D0=90=
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