Re: [PATCH -mm] swsusp: userland interface

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 11:43:00PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The patch assumes that the major and minor numbers of the snapshot device
> > will be 10 (ie. misc device) and 231, the registration of which has already been
> > requested.
> 
> Why does it need a statically-allocated major and minor?  misc_register()
> will generate a uevent and the device node should just appear...

Not everyone uses udev, so for things that are going to be in the kernel
tree, it's good to still register a major/minor number for them.

thanks,

greg k-h
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