On 2/12/19 5:29 PM, Greg KH wrote:
On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 02:02:52PM +0800, Chengguang Xu wrote:
Actually, total amount of available minor number
for a single major is MINORMARK + 1. So expand
minor range when registering chrdev region.
Signed-off-by: Chengguang Xu <cgxu...@gmx.com>
---
drivers/misc/mei/main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
index 87281b3695e6..3df54f1e1a8b 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
@@ -869,7 +869,7 @@ static const struct file_operations mei_fops = {
static struct class *mei_class;
static dev_t mei_devt;
-#define MEI_MAX_DEVS MINORMASK
+#define MEI_MAX_DEVS (MINORMASK + 1)
Why is this needed? Have you really run out of that many minor nodes
for this driver?
Not really, practically maybe we cannot reach to the limit.
I was just curious why only one minor number left there and assumed
that was from a mistake(since I've seen similar mistake in other driver).
However, if it explicitly sets to MINORMASK for some reasons, then it's
better to keep as is.
Thanks
