On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:59:25 +0200
Dongsu Park <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 07/28/2011 05:22 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:29:05PM +0800, Liu Yuan wrote:
> >> +static struct miscdevice vhost_blk_misc = {
> >> + 234,
> >
> > Don't get a major unless you really must.
>
> the minor number 234 conflicts with that of BTRFS, in kernel 3.0 at least.
> Therefore you cannot load vhost_blk.ko if btrfs.ko was already loaded.
> Probably that number should be something else, with which you don't have
> conflict with any minor number in include/linux/miscdevice.h.
It should be zero or it should be officially reserved in devices.txt via
[email protected], who (for it happens to be me currently) will turn it
down and tell you to use 0 to get a dynamic allocation unless you can
provide a very good reason that isn't suitable.
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