From: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Subject: Re: pktcdvd -> sysfs warning with 2.6.27
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:01:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081014000148.2b2632d0@i1501.lan.towertech.it> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081013214747.GA15765@kroah.com>
On Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:47:47 -0700
Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > Major 254 is listed as LOCAL/EXPERIMENTAL USE in devices.txt. I don't
> > consider either pktcdvd or the rtc drivers as LOCAL/EXPERIMENTAL: the
> > former in particular has been in the kernel for years.
>
> Both of those should get "real" majors assigned to them. It's not ok to
> randomly go grabbing major:minor numbers like this for code that is in
> mainline.
the rtc dev uses dynamically assigned numbers, as does pktcdvd, so they
should be able to coexist . maybe the problem lies in the pktsetup
utility.
--
Best regards,
Alessandro Zummo,
Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy
http://www.towertech.it
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-13 22:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-12 12:26 pktcdvd -> sysfs warning with 2.6.27 Nix
2008-10-12 18:17 ` Greg KH
2008-10-12 20:25 ` Nix
2008-10-12 22:18 ` Greg KH
2008-10-12 22:36 ` Nix
2008-10-13 10:27 ` Philip Martin
2008-10-13 21:28 ` Nix
2008-10-13 21:47 ` Greg KH
2008-10-13 22:01 ` Alessandro Zummo [this message]
2008-10-13 22:03 ` Nix
2008-10-14 5:27 ` Peter Osterlund
2008-10-14 8:38 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-14 9:20 ` Kay Sievers
2008-10-14 19:53 ` Peter Osterlund
2008-10-14 22:32 ` Kay Sievers
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