Re: your mail

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Fri, 26 Mar 1999 20:57:19 +0000 (GMT)

> I was taking the advice of Alessandro Rubini in his book Linux Device Drivers. He
>
> suggested using dynamic allocation of major numbers by setting the major to zero
> in
> the request_chrdev. Is this *not* the preferred method?

Not generally - also major 0 doesnt use the next number- it starts from
the highest and works backwards - so it fills in the 'reserved' spaces,
while picking the next one will tend to fill in slots belonging to drivers

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