From: corbet@lwn.net (Jonathan Corbet)
To: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Drop second arg of unregister_chrdev()
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:42:04 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060816154204.28656.qmail@lwn.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 16 Aug 2006 09:03:19 +0200." <200608160903.25145.eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> wrote:
> > Might this, instead, be an opportunity to get rid of the internal
> > register_chrdev() and unregister_chrdev() calls in favor of the cdev
> > interface?
>
> In this case I would suggest to add documentation to this functions first to
> get people the chance to actually know how to use them.
Good point. My article (http://lwn.net/Articles/49684/) has been
somewhat overtaken by time, though I do think that the discussion in
LDD3 is still applicable. I'll see what I can do about that side of
things.
jon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-16 15:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-15 3:35 [PATCH] Drop second arg of unregister_chrdev() Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-15 3:48 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-15 4:18 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2006-08-15 19:52 ` Jonathan Corbet
2006-08-16 7:03 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2006-08-16 15:42 ` Jonathan Corbet [this message]
2006-08-17 21:22 ` cdev documentation (was Drop second arg of unregister_chrdev()) Jonathan Corbet
2006-08-18 7:15 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2006-08-18 12:32 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2006-08-18 12:46 ` [TTY] Remove bogus call to cdev_del() Rolf Eike Beer
2006-08-18 13:02 ` cdev documentation (was Drop second arg of unregister_chrdev()) Jonathan Corbet
2006-08-18 13:49 ` Dmitry Torokhov
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