Re: [PATCH] HID: uhid: allocate static minor

2013-09-24 Thread David Herrmann
Hey Jiri I forgot to put you on CC on the initial patch. Any comments on this? Cheers David On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:51 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: > On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:33 PM, David Herrmann wrote: >> udev has this nice feature of creating "dead" /dev/ device-nodes if >> it finds a devnode:

[PATCH] HID: uhid: allocate static minor

2013-09-09 Thread David Herrmann
udev has this nice feature of creating "dead" /dev/ device-nodes if it finds a devnode: modalias. Once the node is accessed, the kernel automatically loads the module that provides the node. However, this requires udev to know the major:minor code to use for the node. This feature was introduced by

Re: [PATCH] HID: uhid: allocate static minor

2013-09-09 Thread Tom Gundersen
On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 6:33 PM, David Herrmann wrote: > udev has this nice feature of creating "dead" /dev/ device-nodes if > it finds a devnode: modalias. Once the node is accessed, the kernel > automatically loads the module that provides the node. However, this > requires udev to know the major