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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] misc: add missing minor nodes
On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 07:46:02PM +0000, Mark Jackson wrote:
> On 18/02/14 18:52, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 02:27:25AM -0300, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> >> From: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
> >> ---
> >> Documentation/devices.txt | 3 +++
> >> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt
> >> index 04356f5..0ea1cc2 100644
> >> --- a/Documentation/devices.txt
> >> +++ b/Documentation/devices.txt
> >> @@ -329,6 +329,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated.
> >> filesystem across multiple physical disks.
> >>
> >> 10 char Non-serial mice, misc features
> >> + 0 = /dev/fram
> >> 0 = /dev/logibm Logitech bus mouse
> >> 1 = /dev/psaux PS/2-style mouse port
> >> 2 = /dev/inportbm Microsoft Inport bus mouse
> >
> > That's not ok at all, and probably a bug, someone must have thought that
> > minor 0 ment "give me a dynamic number." No one caught this when the
> > driver was first merged in a arch-specific tree in 2008 :(
> >
> > In looking at the driver, it probably should just be a UIO driver, or
> > something else, all it does it map frame buffer memory to userspace,
> > given the hardware involved, odds are no one even uses it anymore...
> >
> > Mark and Haavard, any thoughts about the
> > arch/avr32/boards/mimc200/fram.c driver? Can I fix up the minor number
> > here, or just delete the driver entirely if it's not being used anymore?
>
> I think it's safe to delete the driver.
>
> The mimc200 unit is now basically obsolete and there'll be no new development on it.

Ok, thanks.

Greg,

So it looks like only 197 and 239 need to be updated in
the documentation. Below is the updated patch.

Lucas De Marchi

---------8<---------
Subject: [PATCH] misc: add missing minor nodes
Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
---
Documentation/devices.txt | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt
index 04356f5..d154147 100644
--- a/Documentation/devices.txt
+++ b/Documentation/devices.txt
@@ -411,6 +411,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated.
194 = /dev/zkshim Zero-Knowledge network shim control
195 = /dev/elographics/e2201 Elographics touchscreen E271-2201
196 = /dev/vfio/vfio VFIO userspace driver interface
+ 197 = /dev/pxa3xx-gcu PXA3xx graphics controller unit driver
198 = /dev/sexec Signed executable interface
199 = /dev/scanners/cuecat :CueCat barcode scanner
200 = /dev/net/tun TAP/TUN network device
@@ -452,6 +453,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated.
236 = /dev/mapper/control Device-Mapper control device
237 = /dev/loop-control Loopback control device
238 = /dev/vhost-net Host kernel accelerator for virtio net
+ 239 = /dev/uhid User-space I/O driver support for HID subsystem

240-254 Reserved for local use
255 Reserved for MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR
--
1.9.0


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