[PATCH] Fuse chardevice number

[Jan Engelhardt]

Hi Miklos and LKML,



could this patch be useful? It's rather cosmetics, but at least fuse did not 
die of MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR.

(Base is a linux-2.6.13-rc1)

diff -Pdpru S0706/include/linux/fuse.h AS17/include/linux/fuse.h
--- S0706/include/linux/fuse.h	2005-07-07 20:53:42.000000000 +0200
+++ AS17/include/linux/fuse.h	2005-07-09 11:38:55.000000000 +0200
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@
 /* This file defines the kernel interface of FUSE */
 
 #include <asm/types.h>
+#include <linux/major.h>
+#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
 
 /** Version number of this interface */
 #define FUSE_KERNEL_VERSION 7
@@ -20,10 +22,10 @@
 #define FUSE_ROOT_ID 1
 
 /** The major number of the fuse character device */
-#define FUSE_MAJOR 10
+#define FUSE_MAJOR MISC_MAJOR
 
 /** The minor number of the fuse character device */
-#define FUSE_MINOR 229
+#define FUSE_MINOR MISC_DYNAMIC_MINOR
 
 /* Make sure all structures are padded to 64bit boundary, so 32bit
    userspace works under 64bit kernels */
#### EOF


Jan Engelhardt
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