From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752116AbZERU1S (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2009 16:27:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751794AbZERU1K (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2009 16:27:10 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:41578 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751422AbZERU1J (ORCPT ); Mon, 18 May 2009 16:27:09 -0400 Date: Mon, 18 May 2009 21:28:01 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Pavel Machek Cc: Greg KH , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH , Kay Sievers , Jan Blunck Subject: Re: [patch 02/13] Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for misc devices. Message-ID: <20090518212801.653c3bf0@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090515195856.GD1353@ucw.cz> References: <20090509142601.874865281@blue.kroah.org> <20090509143631.755885703@blue.kroah.org> <20090515195856.GD1353@ucw.cz> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 15 May 2009 21:58:56 +0200 Pavel Machek wrote: > On Sat 2009-05-09 07:26:03, Greg KH wrote: > > From: Kay Sievers > > > > This adds support for misc devices to report their requested nodename to > > userspace. It also updates a number of misc drivers to provide the > > needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them. > > > > Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers > > Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman > > Maybe it would be better to assign stable minor/major numbers to those > devices instead? minor/major number space is pretty big these days... More to the point we already have /proc/misc