Re: [PATCH] fix pktcdvd breakage from commit e105b8bfc769b0545b6f0f395179d1e43cbee822

Al Viro
2008-11-30T14:52:35Z

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 03:28:15PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> > So we need to preserve the layout, with the easiest way probably being "add
> > one more ktype and use kobject_init_and_add() instead of that device_create()".
> > Sigh...
>
> What do you mean? We just need to replace the bogus "pd->pkt_dev" with
> MKDEV(0, 0) and we are fine.

Userland-visible change - right now cat /sys/class/pktcdvd/pktcdvd3/dev will
give you dev_t of the block device in question.