From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756095AbYIKSec (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:34:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752852AbYIKSeX (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:34:23 -0400 Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de ([212.227.126.187]:61334 "EHLO moutng.kundenserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752761AbYIKSeX (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:34:23 -0400 Date: 11 Sep 2008 20:30:00 +0200 From: lirc@bartelmus.de (Christoph Bartelmus) To: jwilson@redhat.com Cc: j@jannau.net Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: lkml@ml.breakpoint.cc Cc: superm1@ubuntu.com Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <200809091303.27742.jwilson@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/18] lirc core device driver infrastructure User-Agent: OpenXP/4.10.7369 (Linux) (i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19wzQdCYx4LvqmHUcKoSkYyfjjfvQsshi0aeFx daUty0MEOXewkytL9YbYkgGDTieWKl0wrnfU12YB+cTUbjIU1n c4cOnqiJDWPipOpWNUV6L9/BjjvVuCr7F5BZ0PIXKc= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, on 09 Sep 08 at 13:03, Jarod Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 09 September 2008 03:40:18 Sebastian Siewior wrote: [...] >>>+EXTRA_CFLAGS =-DIRCTL_DEV_MAJOR=61 -DLIRC_SERIAL_TRANSMITTER -I$(src) >> >> Do you rely on this specific major? Since your daemon opens /dev/lirc0 >> you don't need a fixed major do you? > Good question. Quite honestly, I'm not sure. Christoph? LIRC does not rely on a specific major. But to be honest, the last time I looked into this issue, was when devfs was bleeding-edge... So, we need some advice here how to proceed. Should we try to register an official major number for LIRC? Should we try to have a minor number mapping, e.g. /dev/lirc/serial/0 LIRC device on 1st UART serial port ... /dev/lirc/serial/n LIRC device on n-th UART serial port /dev/lirc/parallel/0 LIRC device on 1st parallel port ... /dev/lirc/parallel/n LIRC device on n-th parallel port /dev/lirc/usb/0 1st LIRC USB device ... Christoph