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From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Mike Frysinger <michael.frysinger@analog.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] [Blackfin] char driver for Blackfin on-chip OTP memory
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:38:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <47A07DCE.5010808@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a0801300519g22c5b66fjcba22a027e7043cc@mail.gmail.com>

On 01/30/2008 02:19 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Jan 30, 2008 6:00 AM, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 01/30/2008 11:36 AM, Bryan Wu wrote:
>>> +     ret = cdev_add(&bfin_otp_cdev, bfin_otp_dev_node, 1);
>>> +     if (ret) {
>>> +             unregister_chrdev_region(bfin_otp_dev_node, 1);
>>> +             printk(KERN_ERR PFX "unable to register char device\n");
>>> +             return ret;
>>> +     }
>>> +
>>> +     bfin_otp_class = class_create(THIS_MODULE, "otp");
>>> +     device_create(bfin_otp_class, NULL, bfin_otp_dev_node, "otp");
>> Anyway, wouldn't be easier/better to use misc.c functionality here
>> (misc_register() et al.)?
> 
> probably ... i just didnt want to statically allocate a number in the
> range that would be Blackfin specific ...

MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR is definitely your friend ;).


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-30 13:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-30 10:36 [PATCH 1/1] [Blackfin] char driver for Blackfin on-chip OTP memory Bryan Wu
2008-01-30 11:00 ` Jiri Slaby
2008-01-30 12:39   ` Robin Getz
2008-01-30 13:08     ` Jiri Slaby
2008-01-30 13:15     ` Bryan Wu
2008-01-30 13:43       ` Jiri Slaby
2008-01-30 13:53         ` Jiri Slaby
2008-01-30 13:19   ` Mike Frysinger
2008-01-30 13:38     ` Jiri Slaby [this message]
2008-01-30 13:41       ` Mike Frysinger
2008-02-05 18:59   ` Mike Frysinger

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