From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from exchange.solarflare.com ([216.237.3.220]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Naxwl-0000UP-GF for linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:00:12 +0000 Subject: [PATCHv3 9/9] mtdchar: Register the full range of minor numbers From: Ben Hutchings To: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: <1264798537.2785.25.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com> References: <1264798537.2785.25.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:00:04 +0000 Message-Id: <1264798804.2785.42.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com, linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org List-Id: Linux MTD discussion mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , register_chrdev() registers minor numbers up to 255, but we can now potentially have much larger numbers. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c | 5 +++-- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c index 04fd7e5..09b0ab5 100644 --- a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c @@ -955,7 +955,8 @@ static int __init init_mtdchar(void) { int status; - status = register_chrdev(MTD_CHAR_MAJOR, "mtd", &mtd_fops); + status = __register_chrdev(MTD_CHAR_MAJOR, 0, 1 << MINORBITS, + "mtd", &mtd_fops); if (status < 0) { printk(KERN_NOTICE "Can't allocate major number %d for Memory Technology Devices.\n", MTD_CHAR_MAJOR); @@ -966,7 +967,7 @@ static int __init init_mtdchar(void) static void __exit cleanup_mtdchar(void) { - unregister_chrdev(MTD_CHAR_MAJOR, "mtd"); + __unregister_chrdev(MTD_CHAR_MAJOR, 0, 1 << MINORBITS, "mtd"); } module_init(init_mtdchar); -- 1.5.5 -- Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.