Dear Kernel Developers,
I have seen that drivers/char/misc.c already used the deprecated
register_chrdev call and this limited the number of minors to 256.
I recetly asked for a misc minor number attribution for View-OS/kmview
and Torben Mathiasen told me about this issue.
I propose this patch that eliminate both problems. With this patch
misc allocates the entire major 10 and avoids the deprecated call.
These are just my 2 (euro) cents, I hope it can be useful.
renzo
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Renzo Davoli | Dept. of Computer Science
(NIC rd235, HAM IZ4DJE) | University of Bologna
Tel. +39 051 2094501 | Mura Anteo Zamboni, 7
Fax. +39 051 2094510 | I-40127 Bologna ITALY
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--- drivers/char/misc.orig.c 2007-08-05 16:56:59.000000000 +0200
+++ drivers/char/misc.c 2007-09-06 11:07:51.000000000 +0200
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@
static LIST_HEAD(misc_list);
static DEFINE_MUTEX(misc_mtx);
+static struct cdev misc_cdev;
+
/*
* Assigned numbers, used for dynamic minors
*/
@@ -273,6 +275,31 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(misc_register);
EXPORT_SYMBOL(misc_deregister);
+static int misc_register_chrdev(void)
+{
+ dev_t from=MKDEV(MISC_MAJOR,0);
+ int rv;
+ int err = -ENOMEM;
+ char *s;
+
+ if ((rv=register_chrdev_region(from,MINORMASK,"misc")) != 0)
+ return rv;
+
+ cdev_init(&misc_cdev, &misc_fops);
+ misc_cdev.owner=misc_fops.owner;
+ kobject_set_name(&misc_cdev.kobj, "%s", "misc");
+ for (s = strchr(kobject_name(&misc_cdev.kobj),'/'); s; s = strchr(s,
'/'))
+ *s = '!';
+ err = cdev_add(&misc_cdev, from, MINORMASK);
+ if (err)
+ goto out;
+ return 0;
+out:
+ kobject_put(&misc_cdev.kobj);
+ unregister_chrdev_region(from,MINORMASK);
+ return err;
+}
+
static int __init misc_init(void)
{
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
@@ -286,7 +313,7 @@
if (IS_ERR(misc_class))
return PTR_ERR(misc_class);
- if (register_chrdev(MISC_MAJOR,"misc",&misc_fops)) {
+ if (misc_register_chrdev()) {
printk("unable to get major %d for misc devices\n",
MISC_MAJOR);
class_destroy(misc_class);
