Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Wed, 30 Apr 2003 18:27:24 +0200 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | [PATCH] remove devfs hack from misc_register |
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There's an (fortunately unused) devfs in misc_register currently, when the name of the miscdevice contains a slash the name is used as devfs name instead of misc/<name>. Kill if as we have .devfs_name for this kind of stuff now.
--- 1.17/drivers/char/misc.c Sat Apr 19 11:56:45 2003 +++ edited/drivers/char/misc.c Wed Apr 30 18:01:16 2003 @@ -192,21 +192,12 @@ } misc->minor = i; } + if (misc->minor < DYNAMIC_MINORS) misc_minors[misc->minor >> 3] |= 1 << (misc->minor & 7); - - - /* - * please use it if you want to do fancy things with your - * name... - */ if (misc->devfs_name[0] == '\0') { - /* yuck, yet another stupid special-casing. - whos actually using this? Please switch over - to ->devfs_name ASAP */ snprintf(misc->devfs_name, sizeof(misc->devfs_name), - strchr(misc->name, '/') ? - "%s" : "misc/%s", misc->name); + "misc/%s", misc->name); } devfs_register(NULL, misc->devfs_name, 0, MISC_MAJOR, misc->minor, - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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