Am Sonntag, 5. Mai 2002 01:17 schrieb Greg KH:
> On Sun, May 05, 2002 at 12:03:09AM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > under the dynamic scheme, you hand out all a driver's minors at once.
> > Why did you decide on that ? The largest number of devices could be
> > supported if a minor were handed out whenever the device is plugged
> > in.
>
> That is exactly what the code does.  A minor number is handed out when
> the driver asks for it.  And the drivers ask for a number in their probe
> function.  Or did I mess something up?

Why do you have the option to hand out several minors in a block ?
That would seem to encourage fragmentation.

        Regards
                Oliver





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