mtdchar: Register the full range of minor numbers
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Gitweb: http://git.infradead.org/?p=mtd-2.6.git;a=commit;h=dad0db318b391ddb9845ac5e52044f921219bf69
Commit: dad0db318b391ddb9845ac5e52044f921219bf69
Parent: 4d3a8534bdbcf4843fc8ad05c9a81a964fc65237
Author: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings at solarflare.com>
AuthorDate: Fri Jan 29 21:00:04 2010 +0000
Committer: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse at intel.com>
CommitDate: Thu Feb 25 12:46:04 2010 +0000
mtdchar: Register the full range of minor numbers
register_chrdev() registers minor numbers up to 255, but we can now
potentially have much larger numbers.
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings at solarflare.com>
Signed-off-by: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy at nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse at intel.com>
---
drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c | 5 +++--
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
index 9f826cd..c355491 100644
--- a/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
+++ b/drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c
@@ -955,7 +955,8 @@ static int __init init_mtdchar(void)
{
int status;
- status = register_chrdev(MTD_CHAR_MAJOR, "mtd", &mtd_fops);
+ status = __register_chrdev(MTD_CHAR_MAJOR, 0, 1 << MINORBITS,
+ "mtd", &mtd_fops);
if (status < 0) {
printk(KERN_NOTICE "Can't allocate major number %d for Memory Technology Devices.\n",
MTD_CHAR_MAJOR);
@@ -966,7 +967,7 @@ static int __init init_mtdchar(void)
static void __exit cleanup_mtdchar(void)
{
- unregister_chrdev(MTD_CHAR_MAJOR, "mtd");
+ __unregister_chrdev(MTD_CHAR_MAJOR, 0, 1 << MINORBITS, "mtd");
}
module_init(init_mtdchar);
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