Michael Wood wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:57:25AM -0400, Kevin Lawton wrote:
> > I see in host-linux.c, that the devfs mods I integrated awhile
> > ago, call devfs_register/unregister in _addition_ to
> > register_chrdev/unregister_chrdev.
> >
> > Is this correct? Do we need to call both pairs? I would
> > think devfs would replace the old chrdev conventions.
>
> >From a brief look through the Linux 2.4.4 source, I found this
> in linux/drivers/char/ip2main.c:
> #ifdef CONFIG_DEVFS_FS
> if (( err = devfs_register_chrdev ( IP2_IPL_MAJOR, pcIpl, &ip2_ipl )))
> #else
> if ( ( err = register_chrdev ( IP2_IPL_MAJOR, pcIpl, &ip2_ipl ) ) )
> #endif
>
> which seems to agree with my suspicions that one or the other
> should be sufficient.
>From this and Ulrich's email, I assume we should do something like
the code above. devfs_* functions appear to do both calls in one
shot.
I'll change the host-linux.c code to do as above.
-Kevin
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