Re: [PATCH] add sysfs misc device support [3/4]

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Dec 23 2003 - 08:19:25 EST


On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 04:28:00PM -0800, Greg KH wrote:
> This adds /sys/class/mem which enables all misc char devices to show up
> properly in udev.
>
> Note, the misc_init() call has been moved to a subsys_initcall as it
> seems there are a lot of platform specific misc devices that are calling
> misc_register before misc_init() is called.
>
> Has been posted to lkml a few times in the past and tested by a wide
> range of people.

So how are misc devices a device class now? This is just a random coolection
of drivers that traditionally didn't have their own major. Killing misc
devices sounds like abetter plan than codifying this in sysfs..

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