Re: [PATCH] misc: use a proper range for minor number dynamicallocation

From: Alessandro Rubini
Date: Tue Nov 03 2009 - 07:20:43 EST


Hello.
Please forgive my delay.

> First of all, the range for dynamic numbers include some statically
> allocated numbers. It goes from 63 to 0, and we have numbers in the
> range from 1 to 15 already allocated.

Yes, I wrote it ages ago. The "same as major numbers" testifies it.

I think your changes are sane, howver "git am" complains that
"patch doesn't apply". However, plain "patch -p1" liked it, so
I could test the result.

I think you need to rebase on current upstream, but apart from
that

Acked-By: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

/alessandro
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