On 13/06/17 11:00 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > No, don't modify any drivers, do this in the core chardev code.
Ok, well then maybe I misunderstood what you originally asked for because I don't see how you can change a fixed allocation to a dynamic one without touching the driver code which needs to know the major that was assigned in the end. > At quick glance, looks good to me, care to clean it up and make it behind > a config option? Sure. However, is a config option really necessary here? As is, the extended dynamic region will only be used if there are too many chardev majors and it shouldn't have _any_ effect on users that have a small number. So it seems like not selecting that option is just telling the kernel to be broken for no obvious trade-off. Logan
