From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>,
Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>, Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [patch 02/13] Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for misc devices.
Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 07:34:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090518143406.GB20476@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090515195856.GD1353@ucw.cz>
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 09:58:56PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Sat 2009-05-09 07:26:03, Greg KH wrote:
> > From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> >
> > This adds support for misc devices to report their requested nodename to
> > userspace. It also updates a number of misc drivers to provide the
> > needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@suse.de>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
>
> Maybe it would be better to assign stable minor/major numbers to those
> devices instead? minor/major number space is pretty big these days...
That's up to the individual misc driver authors. Lots of them use the
dynamic option, so it's not like we can just ignore this very common
feature.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-18 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 95+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20090509142601.874865281@blue.kroah.org>
2009-05-09 14:37 ` [patch 00/13] devtmpfs patches Greg KH
2009-05-09 14:26 ` [patch 01/13] Driver Core: add nodename callbacks Greg KH
2009-05-10 12:52 ` Stephen Rothwell
2009-05-10 13:19 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-11 20:51 ` Greg KH
2009-05-09 14:26 ` [patch 02/13] Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for misc devices Greg KH
2009-05-15 19:58 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-18 14:34 ` Greg KH [this message]
2009-05-18 19:59 ` Pavel Machek
2009-05-18 20:28 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-09 14:26 ` [patch 03/13] Driver Core: usb: add nodename support for usb drivers Greg KH
2009-05-09 14:26 ` [patch 04/13] Driver Core: block: add nodename support for block drivers Greg KH
2009-05-09 14:26 ` [patch 05/13] Driver Core: x86: add nodename for cpuid and msr drivers Greg KH
2009-05-09 14:26 ` [patch 06/13] Driver Core: dvb: add nodename for dvb drivers Greg KH
2009-05-09 14:26 ` [patch 07/13] Driver Core: input: add nodename for input drivers Greg KH
2009-05-09 14:26 ` [patch 08/13] Driver Core: sound: add nodename for sound drivers Greg KH
2009-05-09 14:26 ` [patch 09/13] Driver Core: raw: add nodename for raw devices Greg KH
2009-05-09 14:26 ` [patch 10/13] Driver Core: drm: add nodename for drm devices Greg KH
2009-05-09 14:26 ` [patch 11/13] Driver Core: aoe: add nodename for aoe devices Greg KH
2009-05-09 14:26 ` [patch 12/13] Driver Core: bsg: add nodename for bsg driver Greg KH
2009-05-09 14:26 ` [patch 13/13] Driver Core: devtmpfs - driver core maintained /dev tmpfs Greg KH
2009-05-09 15:10 ` [patch 00/13] devtmpfs patches Fabio Comolli
2009-05-09 15:08 ` Greg KH
2009-05-09 15:22 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-09 16:19 ` Greg KH
2009-05-09 19:09 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-10 4:34 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-10 7:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-10 14:56 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-10 5:34 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-10 15:20 ` Greg KH
2009-05-10 15:59 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-10 18:31 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-10 21:19 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-10 23:47 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-11 0:00 ` Arjan van de Ven
[not found] ` <ac3eb2510905101822t7fde14b3nf2c689621f69c925@mail.gmail.com>
2009-05-11 2:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-11 10:46 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-11 10:55 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-11 11:34 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-11 13:05 ` [patch 00/13] devtmpfs Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-11 13:28 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-11 13:49 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-11 14:59 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-11 13:10 ` [patch 00/13] devtmpfs patches Alan Cox
2009-05-11 14:14 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-11 14:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-11 14:42 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-11 15:53 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-11 16:28 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-11 16:41 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-11 17:32 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-11 17:55 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-11 18:04 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-11 18:40 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-11 16:56 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-11 18:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-11 3:55 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-11 11:49 ` Fabio Comolli
2009-05-11 17:47 ` Greg KH
2009-05-11 16:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-11 17:16 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-11 21:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-11 1:00 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-11 3:58 ` Arjan van de Ven
2009-05-11 17:45 ` Greg KH
2009-05-09 16:46 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-09 17:11 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-09 18:09 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-11 17:40 ` David P. Quigley
2009-05-11 17:56 ` Greg KH
2009-05-11 20:41 ` David P. Quigley
2009-05-11 21:05 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-11 21:19 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-11 21:27 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-12 12:45 ` Stephen Smalley
2009-05-12 15:10 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-12 15:35 ` Stephen Smalley
2009-05-12 15:54 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-12 22:55 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-12 23:22 ` David P. Quigley
2009-05-12 23:34 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-12 23:50 ` Greg KH
2009-05-13 12:22 ` Stephen Smalley
2009-05-13 12:58 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-13 12:57 ` Stephen Smalley
2009-05-13 13:09 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-13 12:59 ` Alan Cox
2009-05-13 13:20 ` David Howells
2009-05-13 13:34 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-13 14:20 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-13 14:35 ` Stephen Smalley
2009-05-13 16:45 ` Kay Sievers
2009-05-13 22:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-05-13 23:10 ` Greg KH
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