Re: [PATCH 3/3] misc: use a proper range for minor number dynamicallocation

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 12/16/2009 10:01 AM, David Teigland wrote:
> 
> I explained here http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/9/379 that the dlm does not
> use as many misc devices as has been implied.  It starts with 3, and adds
> one for each *userspace* lockspace.  There are very few applications (I
> know of 3) that create userspace lockspaces, and they each create about
> one each.
> 
> That said, I still intend to rework the dlm to use a single device for all
> lockspaces.
> 

Still seems to make more sense to simply move it to a major and/or a
dynamic allocation.  misc devices were always meant to be *one of a
kind* devices, which simply didn't need anything but a single allocation.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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