Messages in this thread | | | From | Jarod Wilson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 01/18] lirc core device driver infrastructure | Date | Thu, 11 Sep 2008 15:09:51 -0400 |
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On Thursday 11 September 2008 14:30:00 Christoph Bartelmus wrote: > Hi, > > on 09 Sep 08 at 13:03, Jarod Wilson wrote: > > On Tuesday 09 September 2008 03:40:18 Sebastian Siewior wrote: > > [...] > > >>>+EXTRA_CFLAGS =-DIRCTL_DEV_MAJOR=61 -DLIRC_SERIAL_TRANSMITTER -I$(src) > >> > >> Do you rely on this specific major? Since your daemon opens /dev/lirc0 > >> you don't need a fixed major do you? > > > > Good question. Quite honestly, I'm not sure. Christoph? > > LIRC does not rely on a specific major. But to be honest, the last time I > looked into this issue, was when devfs was bleeding-edge... > > So, we need some advice here how to proceed. Should we try to register an > official major number for LIRC? Should we try to have a minor number > mapping, e.g. > /dev/lirc/serial/0 LIRC device on 1st UART serial port > ... > /dev/lirc/serial/n LIRC device on n-th UART serial port > /dev/lirc/parallel/0 LIRC device on 1st parallel port > ... > /dev/lirc/parallel/n LIRC device on n-th parallel port > /dev/lirc/usb/0 1st LIRC USB device > ...
Janne took a crack at dynamic device allocation earlier today, committed into my git tree:
http://git.wilsonet.com/linux-2.6- lirc.git/?a=commitdiff;h=ea74897bf7b03e2ed2401df3815637caa0702eab
Haven't yet tested it out, that's on tap for tonight...
-- Jarod Wilson jarod@redhat.com
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