Re: [PATCH] Drop second arg of unregister_chrdev()

[Jonathan Corbet]

Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> > Might this, instead, be an opportunity to get rid of the internal
> > register_chrdev() and unregister_chrdev() calls in favor of the cdev
> > interface?
> 
> In this case I would suggest to add documentation to this functions first to 
> get people the chance to actually know how to use them.

Good point.  My article (http://lwn.net/Articles/49684/) has been
somewhat overtaken by time, though I do think that the discussion in
LDD3 is still applicable.  I'll see what I can do about that side of
things.

jon
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