Re: [PATCH v2 01/13] trinity: Add base driver

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Sat, Sep 17, 2022, at 4:49 PM, Jiho Chu wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 09:41:13 +0200
> "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> If you have the need to manage multiple devices here, maybe use
>> a dynamic major number and have the chardev code allocate the
>> minor numbers, instead of using multiple misc devices and
>> doing that yourself.
>> 
>
> I'm little confusing. It means that managing own char devices is proper,
> not using misc device? But, it's still under misc dir.

There is no strict connection between miscdevices and drivers/misc.

The former is for drivers that tend to have only one instance
in a system, while the latter is for drivers that do not have
a separate subsystem.

     Arnd