The patch titled
     MegaRAID driver management char device moved to misc
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     megaraid-driver-management-char-device-moved-to-misc.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/

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Subject: MegaRAID driver management char device moved to misc
From: Thomas Horsten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

The MegaRAID driver's common management module (megaraid_mm.c) creates a
char device used by the management tool "megarc" from LSI Logic (and
possibly other management tools).

In 2.6 with udev, this device doesn't get created because it is not
registered in sysfs.

I first fixed this by registering a class "megaraid_mm", but realized that
this should probably be moved to misc devices, instead of taking up a char
major.  This is because only 1 device is used, even if there are multiple
adapters - the minor is never used (the adapter info is in the ioctl block
sent to the driver, not detected based on the minor number as one might
think).  So it is a complete waste to have an entire major taken by this.

So it now uses a misc device which I named "megadev0" (the name that megarc
expects), and has a dynamic minor (previoulsy a dynamic major was used).

I have tested this on my own system with the megarc tool, and it works just
as fine as before (only now the device gets created correctly by udev).

Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Neela Syam Kolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Ju, Seokmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c |   20 +++++++++++++-------
 drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.h |    1 +
 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff -puN 
drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c~megaraid-driver-management-char-device-moved-to-misc
 drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c
--- 
a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c~megaraid-driver-management-char-device-moved-to-misc
+++ a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.c
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mraid_mm_register_adp);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mraid_mm_unregister_adp);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(mraid_mm_adapter_app_handle);
 
-static int majorno;
 static uint32_t drvr_ver       = 0x02200207;
 
 static int adapters_count_g;
@@ -76,6 +75,12 @@ static const struct file_operations lsi_
        .owner  = THIS_MODULE,
 };
 
+static struct miscdevice megaraid_mm_dev = {
+       .minor  = MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR,
+       .name   = "megadev0",
+       .fops   = &lsi_fops,
+};
+
 /**
  * mraid_mm_open - open routine for char node interface
  * @inode      : unused
@@ -1184,15 +1189,16 @@ mraid_mm_teardown_dma_pools(mraid_mmadp_
 static int __init
 mraid_mm_init(void)
 {
+       int err;
+
        // Announce the driver version
        con_log(CL_ANN, (KERN_INFO "megaraid cmm: %s %s\n",
                LSI_COMMON_MOD_VERSION, LSI_COMMON_MOD_EXT_VERSION));
 
-       majorno = register_chrdev(0, "megadev", &lsi_fops);
-
-       if (majorno < 0) {
-               con_log(CL_ANN, ("megaraid cmm: cannot get major\n"));
-               return majorno;
+       err = misc_register(&megaraid_mm_dev);
+       if (err < 0) {
+               con_log(CL_ANN, ("megaraid cmm: cannot register misc 
device\n"));
+               return err;
        }
 
        init_waitqueue_head(&wait_q);
@@ -1230,7 +1236,7 @@ mraid_mm_exit(void)
 {
        con_log(CL_DLEVEL1 , ("exiting common mod\n"));
 
-       unregister_chrdev(majorno, "megadev");
+       misc_deregister(&megaraid_mm_dev);
 }
 
 module_init(mraid_mm_init);
diff -puN 
drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.h~megaraid-driver-management-char-device-moved-to-misc
 drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.h
--- 
a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.h~megaraid-driver-management-char-device-moved-to-misc
+++ a/drivers/scsi/megaraid/megaraid_mm.h
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
 #include <linux/moduleparam.h>
 #include <linux/pci.h>
 #include <linux/list.h>
+#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
 
 #include "mbox_defs.h"
 #include "megaraid_ioctl.h"
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from [EMAIL PROTECTED] are

git-scsi-misc.patch

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