Re: [RFC PATCH 5/17] input: rmidev character driver for RMI4 sensors

[Linus Walleij]

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:26 AM, Christopher Heiny <cheiny@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 08/27/2012 11:49 AM, Linus Walleij wrote:
>>
>> You need to patch your desired major number into
>> Documentation/devices.txt'
>
> We were going by the recommendation in Linux Device Drivers (3rd edition) to
> use dynamic major number allocation via alloc_chrdev_region.  In particular
> in section 3.2.3 it says "new numbers are not being assigned".  I guess at
> this point we need to know whether the info in LDD3 is authoritative or not.

You're right, go for dynamic numbers. I was plain wrong.

>>> +static struct class *rmidev_device_class;
>>
>>
>> Last time discussed with Greg, class devices were deprecated,
>> and you should just use a bus instead. (But not sure.)
>
> The references I found online weren't clear on this, so more investigation
> is required.  We'll defer that till we find out if the regmap changes
> eliminate the need for this.

Just push Greg to review next version and he'll tell you what to
do about this, no problem.

Yours,
Linus Walleij
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