Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Mar 2014 12:50:28 -0500 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Revert "Bluetooth: Use devname:vhci module alias for virtual HCI driver" | From | Josh Boyer <> |
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On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 11:46 AM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote: > Hi Thomas, > >> Adding the devname:vhci alias and thus adding a static /dev/vhci device node >> only works when assigning a fixed major/minor number. However, the code >> currently uses a dynamically assigned minor number. It is therefore impossible >> to create a static device and to autoload the module when accessing it. >> >> Reverting this fixes the kmod error message >> depmod: ERROR: Module 'hci_vhci' has devname (vhci) but lacks major and minor information. Ignoring. >> >> This reverts commit bfacbb9aec029b3200053d84c8cd5d7575f2d4a5. > > NAK. We allocated a static minor for this.
Johan mentioned that. Commit b075dd40c95d11c2c8690f6c4d6232fc, correct? Why isn't that headed into 3.14 right now, and CC'd to stable? Currently you have a somewhat broken driver in 3.13 and 3.14-rcX that seems to have a pretty clear fix.
josh
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