Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> > BTW, what is the officially approved way to open a device on a
> > dynamic misc minor? Reading /proc/misc for the minor number,
>
> Ask for minor 0 I believe, then load the module then see what you got.
>
> > then mknod'ing a device and opening it seems to me to have a
> > nasty race condition, am I missing something here?
I think that's not what I was thinking of, here's an outline.
What can happen as I see it is that userspace #2, which wants to
talk to a particular misc driver, actually ends up talking to a
different one because the minor gets reassigned between reading
/proc/misc to find out the number and mknoding and opening the
device:
kernel userspace #1 userspace #2
------ ------------ ------------
insmod maestro
grab a misc minor
read /proc/misc
mknod device
rmmod maestro
release misc minor
insmod something else
grab same misc minor
open device
read from device
Is this just something where you say "don't let that happen",
or...?
I didn't really want to use a dynamic minor but Linus doesn't
want to give out any more fixed assignments, right?
> Ultimately if its a device of its own it probably wants to be part of the
> input device frame work - as for example the volume knob on my USB speakers is
Any idea what code I should be looking at to do something like
that, drivers/usb/audio.c is a big file (is it in there or
somewhere else?).
Thanks,
Ben.
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