Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:56:51 +0200 | From | "Arnd Bergmann" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 01/13] trinity: Add base driver |
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On Sat, Sep 17, 2022, at 4:49 PM, Jiho Chu wrote: > On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 09:41:13 +0200 > "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: >> >> If you have the need to manage multiple devices here, maybe use >> a dynamic major number and have the chardev code allocate the >> minor numbers, instead of using multiple misc devices and >> doing that yourself. >> > > I'm little confusing. It means that managing own char devices is proper, > not using misc device? But, it's still under misc dir.
There is no strict connection between miscdevices and drivers/misc.
The former is for drivers that tend to have only one instance in a system, while the latter is for drivers that do not have a separate subsystem.
Arnd
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