Ulrich Weigand wrote:
> I guess the easiest thing would be to leave everything as is;
> this should work even in the devfs=only case (you *can* call
> register_chrdev even there).
Hey, now there's a patch I can do! :^)
> To simplify everything, we might think of switching to a
> 'misc' device; if we do that, we not only don't waste a
> complete major just for one device, but we also get all the
> devfs stuff done for us by the generic 'misc' device layer ...
I made some small mods so that we create a /dev/misc/plex86 device
node instead of /dev/plex86, since that was recommended to me.
(already in CVS).
If anyone wants to take this further and implement Ulrich's ideas
above, go for it and send diffs.
-Kevin
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