Hi Andrew.
Is this okay? Today I wondered about /dev/parport<n> after not seeing
anything in drivers/parport register char-major-99. Having PP_MAJOR in
include/linux/major.h would've allowed me to more quickly determine that
it was the ppdev driver driving these.
Rene
Index: local/drivers/char/ppdev.c
===================================================================
--- local.orig/drivers/char/ppdev.c 2006-01-03 04:21:10.000000000 +0100
+++ local/drivers/char/ppdev.c 2006-02-26 20:41:04.000000000 +0100
@@ -65,10 +65,11 @@
#include <linux/parport.h>
#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include <linux/poll.h>
-#include <asm/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/major.h>
#include <linux/ppdev.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <linux/device.h>
+#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#define PP_VERSION "ppdev: user-space parallel port driver"
#define CHRDEV "ppdev"
Index: local/include/linux/major.h
===================================================================
--- local.orig/include/linux/major.h 2006-01-03 04:21:10.000000000 +0100
+++ local/include/linux/major.h 2006-02-26 20:40:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -113,6 +113,7 @@
#define UBD_MAJOR 98
+#define PP_MAJOR 99
#define JSFD_MAJOR 99
#define PHONE_MAJOR 100
Index: local/include/linux/ppdev.h
===================================================================
--- local.orig/include/linux/ppdev.h 2006-01-03 04:21:10.000000000 +0100
+++ local/include/linux/ppdev.h 2006-02-26 20:39:04.000000000 +0100
@@ -14,8 +14,6 @@
* Added PPGETMODES/PPGETMODE/PPGETPHASE, Fred Barnes <[email protected]>, 03/01/2001
*/
-#define PP_MAJOR 99
-
#define PP_IOCTL 'p'
/* Set mode for read/write (e.g. IEEE1284_MODE_EPP) */
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