Re: [PATCH] Fuse chardevice number

2005-07-14 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> >> /** The minor number of the fuse character device */ > >> -#define FUSE_MINOR 229 > >> +#define FUSE_MINOR MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR > > > >FUSE has an allocated fix minor. Dynamic minor is much harder to > >handle with legacy /dev (not udev). > > How many users of 2.6.13 and up really do not have

Re: [PATCH] Fuse chardevice number

2005-07-14 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi, >> /** The minor number of the fuse character device */ >> -#define FUSE_MINOR 229 >> +#define FUSE_MINOR MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR > >FUSE has an allocated fix minor. Dynamic minor is much harder to >handle with legacy /dev (not udev). How many users of 2.6.13 and up really do not have/run udev?

Re: [PATCH] Fuse chardevice number

2005-07-14 Thread Miklos Szeredi
> /** The major number of the fuse character device */ > -#define FUSE_MAJOR 10 > +#define FUSE_MAJOR MISC_MAJOR OK, this makes some sense. > /** The minor number of the fuse character device */ > -#define FUSE_MINOR 229 > +#define FUSE_MINOR MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR Why? FUSE has an allocated fix

[PATCH] Fuse chardevice number

2005-07-13 Thread Jan Engelhardt
Hi Miklos and LKML, could this patch be useful? It's rather cosmetics, but at least fuse did not die of MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR. (Base is a linux-2.6.13-rc1) diff -Pdpru S0706/include/linux/fuse.h AS17/include/linux/fuse.h --- S0706/include/linux/fuse.h 2005-07-07 20:53:42.0 +0200 +++ AS1