Re: [PATCH] register_blkdev

Alan Cox
2003-03-08T13:55:08Z

On Sat, 2003-03-08 at 00:50, Greg KH wrote:
> > So we need a maxminors flag in the register for 2.6 I guess ?
>
> Do you mean to only increase the number of majors, and not minors then?

How about an interface that looks like

register_chr_device(blah. blah, MY_MAX_MINOR);

and we can delete all the if < 0 || >= MAX return logic from the drivers
as we go. Right now each driver checks and several in the past had off
by one errors.