Re: [LKP] [lkp] [gpio] 3c702e9987: kmsg.user_verbs:couldn't_register_device_number

[Huang\, Ying]

Michael Welling <mwelling@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 02:59:06PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
>> FYI, we noticed the below changes on
>> 
>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio.git chardev
>> commit 3c702e9987e261042a07e43460a8148be254412e ("gpio: add a userspace chardev ABI for GPIOs")
>> 
>> 
>> [    1.951191] user_verbs: couldn't register device number
>
> Looks like user_verbs is using a static device node setup.
>
> enum {
>         IB_UVERBS_MAJOR       = 231,
>         IB_UVERBS_BASE_MINOR  = 192,
>         IB_UVERBS_MAX_DEVICES = 32
> };
>
> #define IB_UVERBS_BASE_DEV      MKDEV(IB_UVERBS_MAJOR, IB_UVERBS_BASE_MINOR)
>
> Something tells me that a new GPIO chardev is taking this spot.
>
> It looks like the device is documented to be using the range:
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/devices.txt
>
> Could you run cat /proc/devices?
>

Sorry, the test mechanism is not flexible enough to run some shell
command in test system.  Could you provide a specialized debug kernel to
dump the necessary information in kernel log?  We can collect dmesg
easily.

Best Regards,
Huang, Ying