Re: [patch 02/13] Driver Core: misc: add nodename support for miscdevices.

[Pavel Machek]

On Sat 2009-05-09 07:26:03, Greg KH wrote:
> From: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
> 
> This adds support for misc devices to report their requested nodename to
> userspace.  It also updates a number of misc drivers to provide the
> needed subdirectory and device name to be used for them.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jan Blunck <jblunck@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

Maybe it would be better to assign stable minor/major numbers to those
devices instead? minor/major number space is pretty big these days...

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