From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: William D Waddington <william.waddington@beezmo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFClue] pci_get_device, new driver model
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 19:36:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1128710197.18867.13.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4346ADD7.9010604@beezmo.com>
On Gwe, 2005-10-07 at 10:18 -0700, William D Waddington wrote:
> Is it ever possible that the hotplug stuff will try to remove and re-add
> one (or all) of my boards when there _hasn't_ been a physical change or
> power cycle/reboot/driver reload/whatever.
Only if the user does it deliberately.
> Still not quite clear how to assocuiate instance/minor #s with boards.
> Do I just keep a global counter and bump it each time probe (or init)
> gets called for each board? Hence my worry above.
It really is up to you. Most drivers just issue the first free minor
number.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-07 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-07 16:18 William D Waddington
2005-10-07 17:28 ` Alan Cox
2005-10-07 17:18 ` William D Waddington
2005-10-07 18:36 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-10-07 21:45 ` Greg KH
2005-10-07 22:03 ` Greg KH
2005-10-07 22:04 ` Greg KH
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2005-10-07 15:56 William D Waddington
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