From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fuse-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
greg@kroah.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] CUSE: implement CUSE - Character device in Userspace
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 21:17:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081121211756.a211d3a8.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49279324.7010605@kernel.org>
On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:05:40 +0900 Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Tejun Heo wrote:
> >> diff --git a/include/linux/miscdevice.h b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
> >> index 0be9245..d4dcca8 100644
> >> --- a/include/linux/miscdevice.h
> >> +++ b/include/linux/miscdevice.h
> >> @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
> >> #define MPT_MINOR 220
> >> #define HPET_MINOR 228
> >> #define FUSE_MINOR 229
> >> +#define CUSE_MINOR 230
> >
> > This doesn't work: device numbers have to be allocated by LANANA.
>
> My last attempt at LANANA for extended devt didn't get me anywhere and
> I'm not sure LANANA is handling miscdevice minors at all.
No, I don't believe that miscdev minors are handled by lanana.
otoh, we've added only one new miscdev minor since 2005. All the new
code is using dynamic allocation. Readers of your changelog and code
comments will be wondering why you didn't do so ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-22 5:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-20 14:22 [PATCHSET] CUSE: implement CUSE, take #2 Tejun Heo
2008-11-20 14:22 ` [PATCH 1/5] FUSE: add fuse_ prefix to several functions Tejun Heo
2008-11-20 14:23 ` [PATCH 2/5] FUSE: export symbols to be used by CUSE Tejun Heo
2008-11-22 8:05 ` [PATCH 2/5 UPDATED] " Tejun Heo
2008-11-20 14:23 ` [PATCH 3/5] FUSE: separate out fuse_conn_init() from new_conn() Tejun Heo
2008-11-20 14:23 ` [PATCH 4/5] FUSE: add fuse_conn->release() Tejun Heo
2008-11-20 14:23 ` [PATCH 5/5] CUSE: implement CUSE - Character device in Userspace Tejun Heo
2008-11-21 18:55 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-11-22 5:05 ` Tejun Heo
2008-11-22 5:17 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-11-22 7:29 ` Tejun Heo
2008-11-22 8:40 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-11-22 8:48 ` Tejun Heo
2008-11-22 5:16 ` Andrew Morton
2008-11-22 8:02 ` Tejun Heo
2008-11-22 8:07 ` [PATCH 5/5 UPDATED] " Tejun Heo
2008-11-26 10:02 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-11-26 10:17 ` Tejun Heo
2008-11-26 11:34 ` Miklos Szeredi
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-08-28 18:18 [PATCHSET] CUSE: implement CUSE Tejun Heo
2008-08-28 18:19 ` [PATCH 5/5] CUSE: implement CUSE - Character device in Userspace Tejun Heo
2008-08-28 20:07 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-28 22:15 ` Greg KH
2008-08-28 22:32 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-29 2:09 ` Tejun Heo
2008-08-29 2:20 ` Andrew Morton
2008-08-29 15:27 ` Nick Bowler
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