On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 11:43:00PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > The patch assumes that the major and minor numbers of the snapshot device
> > will be 10 (ie. misc device) and 231, the registration of which has already been
> > requested.
>
> Why does it need a statically-allocated major and minor? misc_register()
> will generate a uevent and the device node should just appear...
Not everyone uses udev, so for things that are going to be in the kernel
tree, it's good to still register a major/minor number for them.
thanks,
greg k-h
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