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From: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>, Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>,
	<devicetree-discuss@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device?
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2010 15:51:15 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CF42053.8060801@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101129214439.GA9830@kroah.com>

Greg KH wrote:
>> > + * "Never use this function, bad things will happen" - gregkh
> Nice, I like it :)
> 
> I'll go queue this up.

How about something a little more descriptive?  You said that the networking
code can use it.  Could you add some text to explain what the networking code
does with it, and why it's the only allow caller of this code?

-- 
Timur Tabi
Linux kernel developer at Freescale


  reply	other threads:[~2010-11-29 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-17 21:37 How do I choose an arbitrary minor number for my tty device? Timur Tabi
2010-11-17 21:51 ` Greg KH
2010-11-17 22:10   ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-17 22:19     ` Greg KH
2010-11-17 22:42       ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18  2:24         ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 15:31           ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 15:39             ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 16:03               ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 16:33                 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 16:36                   ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 16:51                     ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 16:56                       ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 17:18                         ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 17:38                           ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 17:58                             ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 19:35                               ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 20:02                                 ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 20:06                                   ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 20:10                                     ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 20:43                                       ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 20:56                                         ` Alan Cox
2010-11-22 16:32                                           ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-22 20:12                                             ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-23 13:56                                             ` Alan Cox
2010-11-23 17:14                                               ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-23 23:03                                                 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-18 20:58                                 ` Alan Cox
2010-11-18 17:21                 ` Scott Wood
2010-11-18 17:42                   ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-18 17:58                     ` Greg KH
2010-11-18 18:13                     ` Scott Wood
2010-11-24 10:23                       ` Michael Ellerman
2010-11-24 18:08                         ` Scott Wood
2010-11-24 18:23                           ` Greg KH
2010-11-24 22:44                             ` Michael Ellerman
2010-11-29 21:44                               ` Greg KH
2010-11-29 21:51                                 ` Timur Tabi [this message]
2010-11-29 22:30                                   ` Greg KH
2010-11-29 22:36                                     ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-30  3:29                                       ` Greg KH
2010-11-30  4:15                                         ` Tabi Timur-B04825
2010-11-30 19:33                                         ` Timur Tabi
2010-12-01  1:00                                           ` Greg KH
2010-12-01  9:54                                             ` Kay Sievers
2010-12-02 16:12                                               ` Timur Tabi
2010-11-24 22:46                           ` Michael Ellerman
2010-11-25  4:10                             ` Grant Likely
2010-11-24 18:13                         ` Scott Wood

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